Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919)

Viva l'America!

concert band

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Details
For
concert band
Product Type
Score, Parts
Author / Composer
Ruggero Leoncavallo
Arranger
Leo Capezzuto
Product number
1680889
Publisher
Edizioni musicali Eufonia
Description

Long Live America! (Yankee March) is a piece written for solo piano in 1906 by composer Ruggero Leoncavallo, first performed during his tour of the USA.

The piece, which uses the famous American themes “Yankee Doodle” and “Dixie”, was praised by the New York Herald: “…for the old Yankee Doodle could no more be considered music than its rhyming verses were poetry. All that has been changed by the genius of Leoncavallo, inspired by the reforming spirit of Roosevelt, who has taken our (musically...