Salvatore Cardillo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Salvatore Cardillo

Italian composer

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1874

Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy

Date of Death: 05-Feb-1947

Profession: composer, songwriter

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Salvatore Cardillo

  • Salvatore Cardillo (20 February 1874 – 5 February 1947) was an Italian-American composer.
  • Born in Naples, he studied piano and composition in Italy before emigrating in 1903 to the United States as a university graduate.
  • His career encompassed songwriting and movie music.
  • He died in New York. Cardillo's richly scored and still popular 1911 romance Core 'ngrato (Ungrateful Heart) — also known by its lyric Catarì, Catarì, pecchè me dici sti parole amare — was written in America to a text in Neapolitan dialect by Alessandro Sisca; it is in fact the only famous Neapolitan song by an Italian-American immigrant.
  • The song's first exponent was the operatic tenor Enrico Caruso, but it is not clear whether he commissioned it.
  • Franco Corelli, Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, JosĂ© Carreras and, more recently, Roberto Alagna and Jonas Kaufmann are among the tenors to have included Core 'ngrato in their repertories. The composer also wrote the songs Barcarola, to a text by Edoardo San Giovanni, and Oi luna (O Silvery Moon), to a text by Riccardo Cordiferro.
  • These were published in 1921 as "Two Neapolitan Songs" by G.
  • Schirmer Inc.
  • in New York.

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