Angelo Mascheroni (composer)

Angelo Mascheroni (1855 in Bergamo, Italy – 1905) was a pianist, composer, conductor, and music teacher, brother of the conductor Edoardo Mascheroni. He is most famous for his “Eternamente” for voice and violin, sung by Enrico Caruso; his two-act opera Il mal d’amore, with a libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, was written in 1898. Among his pupils was Spyridon Samaras. He studied music at the Conservatoire of his native city under the guidance of Alessandro Nini, with such success that at the age of nineteen he became conductor of an operatic company. With them, he made the tour of Italy, France and Spain. Later, Mascheroni spent some years in Greece and Russia and then visited all the cities of importance in North and South America. He spent five years in Paris, perfecting himself in the vocal art at the Paris Conservatoire with Léo Delibes for composition and Camille Saint-Saëns for piano; a few years later, he made a name in England and America. When Mascheroni arrived in London, unknown, he experienced great difficulty in obtaining a few guineas for his song For all eternity; but this copyright, when sold by public auction a few years later, realised as many thousand guineas — the