{"id":430,"date":"2016-05-13T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=430"},"modified":"2016-07-24T06:53:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T10:53:22","slug":"suid088","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"F. S. [F. Salfi?], &#8220;Improvisations italiennes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"aei-root\" lang=\"en-GB\"><!-- suid=88 --><\/p>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta\">\n<dt>Performer Name:<\/dt>\n<dd> Giannone; Pistrucci<\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Venue:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp; <\/dd>\n<dt>Performance Date:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> 1823<\/dd>\n<dt>Author:<\/dt>\n<dd>F. S. [F. Salfi?]<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Written:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Language:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\"> French<\/dd>\n<dt>Publication Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>Revue Encyclop\u00e9dique<\/dd>\n<dt>Article Title:<\/dt>\n<dd>Improvisations italiennes<\/dd>\n<dt>Page Numbers:<\/dt>\n<dd> 17:434<\/dd>\n<dt>Additional Info:<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"aei-half-line-below\">February 1823<\/dd>\n<dt>Publisher:<\/dt>\n<dd>&nbsp;<\/dd>\n<dt>Place of Publication:<\/dt>\n<dd> Paris<\/dd>\n<dt>Date Published:<\/dt>\n<dd> 1823<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Text:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote id=\"aei-blockquote\"  lang=\"fr\">\n<p><i>Improvisations italiennes<\/i>. &#8212; On a donn\u00e9 deux s\u00e9ances po\u00e9tiques dans la m\u00eame semaine. M. Giannone a improvis\u00e9 sur divers sujets donn\u00e9s au hasard, le 17 janvier de cette ann\u00e9e, dans la Galerie Pomp\u00e9i. M. Pistrucci, d\u00e9j\u00e0 connu avantageusement \u00e0 Paris, a aussi r\u00e9p\u00e9t\u00e9 ses improvisations le 19, dans la salle des Menus-Plaisirs. Le premier s&apos;est fait remarquer par un caract\u00e8re de douceur, qui se m\u00ealait souvent au path\u00e9tique de quelques sujets qu&apos;il a trait\u00e9s. Les gens de go\u00fbt ont paru satisfaits de ses \u00e9preuves. M. Pistrucci s&apos;est montr\u00e9 tel qu&apos;on l&apos;avait appr\u00e9cie auparavant, avec la m\u00eame verve et la m\u00eame hardiesse. Il para\u00eet plut\u00f4t entra\u00een\u00e9 par son sujet, qu&apos;occup\u00e9 de le diriger. Il a fait un v\u00e9ritable tour de force, en improvisant un op\u00e9ra sur le sujet donn\u00e9 de <i>Ph\u00e8dre<\/i>; il a chant\u00e9 les r\u00e9citatifs, les ariettes, les choeurs, etc., en signalant par le ton et par la pantomime le caract\u00e8re de chaque personnage. Ces deux improvisateurs ont donn\u00e9 une nouvelle preuve de leur reconnaissance et de leur patriotisme, en distribuant des vers sur la mort de Sestini, leur concitoyen, et comme eux improvisateur distingu\u00e9. M. Pistrucci, invit\u00e9 \u00e0 composer de suite une oder <i>sur la civilisation<\/i>, a trait\u00e9 sur-le-champ, avec chaleur et enthousiasme, ce f\u00e9cond et magnifique sujet, qui pourra plus tard inspirer un po\u00e8te philosophe appel\u00e9 \u00e0 c\u00e9l\u00e9brer les divers genres de victoires que le g\u00e9nie industrieux et actif de l&apos;homme est parvenu \u00e0 remporter sur la nature, \u00e0 laquelle, suivant la belle expression de Bacon, nous ne pouvons commander qu&apos;en lui ob\u00e9issant.<\/p>\n<p>F. S.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"aei-one-line-down\"><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"aei-blocktext\">\n<p>Pistrucci&apos;s performance date: 19 January 1823<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<dl id=\"aei-dl-meta-unimportant\">\n<dt>Collected by:<\/dt>\n<dd> DP<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The author describes two improvised performances, one by Giannone, and the other by Pistrucci, very favourably, expressing admiration for the talent of the improvisatori as well as their patriotism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,134],"tags":[97,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1720,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/1720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/romanticimprov.utoronto.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}