Carmine de Laurentiis

Carmine de Laurentiis was a 19th-century Italian mandolinist, musical educator, author and composer who taught mandolin and guitar in Naples. His only well-known student was Carlo Munier. The article mentioning Laurentiis’ method talked about the decline of the mandolin, calling the mandolin “entirely out of fashion.” Decline of the mandolin The mandolin was used internationally on the European continent in the mid 18th century up through the early 19th-Century, by Italian virtuoso-players touring Europe and giving concerts. Among them was Bartolomeo Bortolazzi Alexandro Marie Antoin Fridzeri, Pietro Vimercati, Luigi Castellaci, and Giovanni Vailati. The untrained musicians concentrated on the romantic elements in the music, attempting to imitate a guitar’s strum with arpeggios, or a violin by use of tremolo. Having become a folk instrument, the techniques demonstrated by the virtuosic mandolin masters disappeared. The mandolin’s dark age and sudden rise In the period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars until 1880 the mandolin was a forgotten fad, although mandolin music was made and consumed in Italy. It was seen on the streets in the hands of street musicians, and emigrants took