Changes
Recent additions, translations, and archival updates to Mascagni.org
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- Mascagni.org is back online after nearly a decade offline — returning with zoomable original scores, manuscripts, and historical photographs, searchable catalogs of works, libretti, musical scores, recordings, and bibliography, streaming audio excerpts and 1935 Nerone film footage, and instant site-wide search.
- Restored all 2007–2009 posts from The Mascagni.org Blog to the News Archive — including announcements for the U.S. première of Il piccolo Marat, newly surfaced photographs of Mascagni rehearsing Aida and at the piano, a Chocolat Guérin-Boutron collector card, and recording and performance dispatches.
- Expanded the work pages — including songs such as Risveglio and M’ama… non m’ama, piano pieces such as Un pensiero a San Francisco, sacred works, and operas — with song texts and synopses, audio excerpts, recordings, publisher notes, and links to original scores and articles.
- Revised and expanded the Biography of Pietro Mascagni, organized by period with archival portraits and links to works, recordings, and historical articles.
- Completed the Mascagni in San Francisco (1903) special feature and published six February 1903 San Francisco Examiner and San Francisco Chronicle articles with original newspaper sketches and clippings.
- Completed the English translation of Pietro Mascagni’s January 1914 La Lettura essay, How Parisina was Born, paired with a proofread edition of the original Italian article and high-resolution magazine scans.
- Reconstructed and proofread Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti’s March 1932 La Lettura memoir, Mascagni prima della « Cavalleria », from the original scans.
- The original Mascagni.org website had gone offline by this date.
- Last known date the original Mascagni.org website was online without errors.
Historical Update Log (1999–2006)
Updates from Mascagni.org’s original publication era are preserved separately in Historical Site Changes (1999–2006) → alongside the News Archive (1999–2009) →