Mercadante - Elegia for flute and piano Faber Silver Bells Jay Livingston Ray

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This first edition serves as the primary source for our edition

Annabel Knight presents the first in a series of four volumes dedicated to flute music from the Baroque period

Mercadante - Elegia for flute and piano Faber Silver Bells Jay Livingston RaySaverio Mercadante was born and baptised at Altamura (in Puglia, southern Italy) on 17 September 1795. His mother, Rosa Bia, daughter of a miller, was never actually married to Giuseppe Orazio Mercadante, the owner of a mill on the ground floor of young Saverios first home. Indeed, research has suggested that Rosa Bia had had an affair with a local archdeacon, Nicola Leone (distinguished musician and composer), and that when her pregnancy became known