Alfredo Catalani 阿尔费雷多·卡塔拉尼

意大利作曲家。出生于卢卡。早年求学于米兰音乐学院，师从于安东尼奥‧巴齐尼，并成为博伊托的好友。1888年起任米兰音乐学院作曲教授。其主要的作品体裁是歌剧，所作歌剧风格不同于同时代的意大利作曲家，较接近瓦格纳的德奥浪漫主义风格。代表作是4幕歌剧“拉·瓦利”，作于1892年，剧情取自德国作家希拉恩的同名小说，其中的咏叹调“那么 我将去往远方”非常有名。这是大指挥家托斯卡尼尼非常钟爱的一部歌剧，他甚至为自己女儿起名为“拉·瓦利”。他创作的《华丽姑娘》是近年来渐受欢迎的意大利歌剧，剧中的阿尔卑斯山民谣与极具张力的情节是此剧最大的特色。在Decca公司这个著名的录音版本当中，提芭蒂温暖高贵的歌声，蒙那克英雄般的豪情演出，让这出少数有完整录音的歌剧，成为独一无二的选择。

1893年8月7日卡塔拉尼逝世。

Alfredo Catalani (19 June 1854 – 7 August 1893) was an Italian operatic composer. He is best remembered for his operas Loreley (1890) and La Wally (1892). La Wally was composed to a libretto by Luigi Illica, and features Catalani's most famous aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana." This aria, sung by American soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez, was at the heart of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 cult movie Diva. Catalani's other operas were much less successful. Born in Lucca, Catalani was trained at the Milan Conservatoire, where his teachers included Antonio Bazzini. Despite the growing influence of the verismo style of opera during the 1880s and early 1890s, Catalani chose to compose in a more traditional manner, which had traces of Wagner in it. As a result, his operas (La Wally excepted) have largely lost their place in the modern repertoire, even compared to those of Massenet and Puccini, whose style his own periodically resembles. (Catalani much resented Puccini's emergence and even accused Puccini, falsely, of plagiarism.) The influence of Amilcare Ponchielli can also be recognized in Catalani's output. Catalani's reputation, like Ponchielli's, now rests almost entirely on one work. However, while La Wally enjoys occasional revivals, Ponchielli's La Gioconda has always been the more popular opera of the two (287 performances to date at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, as opposed to only four for La Wally). In 1893, upon his premature death from tuberculosis in Milan, Catalani was interred in the Cimitero Monumentale, where Ponchielli and conductor Arturo Toscanini also lie. A passionate admirer of Catalani's music, Toscanini even named one of his daughters Wally. Toscanini recorded the prelude to Act IV of La Wally and the "Dance of the Water Nymphs" from Loreley in Carnegie Hall in August 1952 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra for RCA Victor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Catalani'>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfredo_Catalani