Donato Semeraro

The importance of the muses in ancient mythology was paramount: they represented the supreme ideal of the arts, of which they were the protectors. Terpischori was one of the nine muses and she guarded...

The composition recalls the sense of adventure and excitement travelling by stream train: the loudspeaker announcing the departure from the station; the laboured struggle of the engine to gradually pi...

This piece sees the author leafing through the pages of memories and employing music as the vehicle to describe some of those moments. In particular, he tells of his adolescence, with its alternating...

Among the many songs composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo, Mattinata (Morning Serenade) is undoubtedly the most famous. Written in 1904 for the amazing voice of the Neapolitan tenor Enrico Caruso, it is on...

Cesare Andrea Bixio composed Mamma, one of the most well-known Italian classic songs, for lyrics by Bruno Cherubini. The song owes its fame in part to the typical Italian melody, but even more to the...

Anticamente le prime composizioni polifoniche erano quasi sempre incentrate su un Cantus Firmus che significa canto fermo, in genere un canto gregoriano, e nel repertorio musicale della Chiesa cristia...

Anima Mediterranea (Mediterranean Soul) is a composition by Donato Semeraro for clarinet in G (also called Turkish clarinet) and wind band. As an alternative to the clarinet in G, the solo part can be...