Scenes from Rapsodia Satanica

Mascagni composed the music for the film Rapsodia Satanica during 1914 and 1915 for Cines, an Italian film publisher.

Fausto Maria Martini composed a poem cinema-musicale published in a small booklet along with pictures from the film. Those pictures are reproduced below. Another author, Alfa (pseudonym of baron Alberto Fassini), is also credited, probably as the co-author of the scenario of Rapsodia Satanica. The poem was most likely composed by Martini only, being signed by him. A letter of Mascagni dated December 23, 1914, confirms this:

"[...] Fausto Maria Martini, che farà un poema in versi sulla Rapsodia. [...]"

Epistolary source: Mario Morini, Roberto Iovino, Alberto Paloscia, Pietro Mascagni, Epistolario Volume II, Libreria Musicale Italiana, 1997.

The complete scanned booklet is also available.