Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers Record Series #12/9/56 Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers, 1905−1954 Record Series 12/9/56 (9 cubic feet, 9 boxes) By Elizabeth Miller, Scott Schwartz, Eduardo Herrera and Tad Boehmer Biography Pietro A. Cipollone – musician, band leader, and composer – was born in Tocco Casauria, Italy in 1899 and studied music composition and theory with Jules Massenet, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, and Francesco Paolo Tosti. He received wide acclaim in the United States and Italy for his excellence in directing of symphony orchestras and bands, and his music interpretations of traditional western−European orchestral composition. His musicianship won him praise from such renowned Italian music teachers as Cav. Omero Carraro, artistic director of the G. Campi Music House, in Foligno, Italy and Ivo Baffigi. Pietro Cipollone emigrated to the United States in 1913. While living in Tamaqua, Pennsylvania in 1933 he and local merchant Anthony Ferrari formed the Ferrari Sons Musical Club and the Ferrari Band with Cipollone as its music director. World War II brought about frequent changes of band personnel making it very difficult to sustain the band and its programming. Many of the band’s concerts were radio broadcast on WAZL from Hazelton, Pennsylvania. In addition to his work as a band director Cipollone taught private music lessons at his home and at the Philadelphia Music Center until his death in January of 1955. Further information on Cipollone can be found in Emma S. Rocco’s Italian Wind Bands: A Surviving Tradition in the Milltowns of Lawrence and Beaver Counties of Pennsylvania, G. K. Hall’s Three Centuries of American Music, and Raoul Camus’ Anthology of American Composers. Scope and Content Consists of original and published music compositions and arrangements for wind band, original and published band books, photographs, programs, news clippings, business records, sound and videotape recordings, and an award documenting Pietro A. Cipollone’s career as a composer, music educator, conductor, and director of wind ensembles in both Italy and the United States between 1905 and 1954. The papers also document Cipollone’s involvement and management of the Ferrari Band, the Royal Italian Band, and the Loyal Order of the Moose Band. In addition to Chipollone’s music original compositions there are his and other’s arrangements of works by such leading Italian and American composers as Luigi Bertolini, Giuseppe Verdi and John Philip Sousa, and Edwin Franko Goldman. The collection provides unique documentation of the melding of predominantly nineteenth− and twentieth−century Italian orchestral and wind−band composition with early twentieth−century American music traditions. Of particular interest are Cipollone’s arrangements of music compositions by John Philip Sousa. The collection is organized in four series: Series 1, Music Manuscripts, ca 1905−1954; Series 2, Published Music, ca 1900−1950; Series 3, Band Books, undated; and Series 4, Personal Papers, 1915−1954. The papers are arranged alphabetically by either title or type of material within each series. Cipollone’s original band books are arranged at the beginning of series 3. Oversized materials have been placed at the end of the collection. A composer/title index for all the music is located at the end of the finding aid. 1 Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers Provenance Papers were transferred to the University of Illinois from the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania’ s Baron−Forness Library June 14, 2000. Box and Folder Inventory Series 1: Music Manuscripts Box Folder Contents Composer/Arranger 1 1 “#8 Marcia” unidentified 2 “A14 Marcia” unidentified 3 “Addah Polka per Solo Cornetta” Bertolini 4 “Ai Miei Giovani Alumni” Cipollone, Pietro 5 “Al Passo” unidentified 6 “Al Campo di Pouleira, Marica Militare” Casauria, Lucco 7 “Al Duce La Fede Polka” Cipollone, Pietro 8 “Al Mio Paese” Cipollone, Pietro 9 “Alla sentimentale, Tempo di Marcia” Fasoli 10 “A trieste” unidentified 11 “Alto III. Nell’Opera Ernani” Verdi 12 “American’s Victory” Cipollone, Pietro 13 “Amore e Speranze” Cipollone, Pietro “Aria Finale, (Nuova ferita, crudele profonda) per 14 Mercandante Bombardino, Nell’Opera Il Pueggente” 15 “Battesimo di Sangue, Marcia Funebre” Asortoloni 16 "Bohemian Girl" Balfe 17 "Campaign Melodies" Bartolini 18 “Cane da Caccia – Polcka” unidentified 19 “Cantum Ergo” unidentified 20 “Cantum Ergo per Baritono e Coro” unidentified 21 “Canzona del Brigante Musullino” unidentified 22 “Canzoni di Piedigrotta” Cipollone, Pietro 23 “Canzoni di Piedigrotta” Cipollone, Pietro 24 “Canzoniere” Gambordella 25 “Canzoniere” Gambordella 26 “Canzoniere 1905 e 1906” Cipollone, Pietro 27 “Caterina” Cipollone, Pietro 28 “Cavalleria Rusticana” Mascagni 29 “Cavatina per Clarino Si, Nell’Opera Norma” Bellini 30 “Cilentana, Marcia Militare” Cipollone 31 “Classa Spostata” Cipollone, Pietro 2 Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers 32 “Clementina Mazurka” Cipollone, Pietro 33 “Come over On My Veranda, Waltz Song” unidentified 34 “Compliance Waltz” Cipollone, Pietro 35 “Concerto per Cornetta Sib” Cipollone, Pietro 36 “Canzona Polka” Cipollone, Pietro “Coro, Lanzone e Duetto Nell’Opretta Le Campare de 37 Planquette Corneville” 38 “Creatore” unidentified 39 “Credo per 1 & 2 Tenore per Banda” Bartolini 40 “Cuore D’Artista, Marcia Militare” Bartolini 41 “De Carnibvale dei Studenti” unidentified 42 “Del Mese di Maggio 1905 Ode a Maria S. S.” Bartolini 43 “Delores Waltzer” Waldtenfel 44 “Disies” unidentified 45 “Dispotismo, Marcia Sinfonica” Roberto 46 “Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si, Do” Burt, Beni 47 “Down in Yungle Town, Medley March Two−Step” Bartolini 48 “Duetto Nell’Opera Lucia di Lamermoor” Donzinetti “Duetto per Trombone e Cornetta Nell’Opera I Due 49 Verdi Froscari” 50 “Duno di Gariboloi in Mi−flat” unidentified 51 “Echtes Wienne Blut, Marcia” Romatt 52 “Elisa, Marcia” Sibilla 53 “Ester Marcia Militare” Egidia Granese 54 “Fanfara in Lontanza” unidentified 55 “Fantasia, Bohemian Girl, Redusione per Banda” Balfe 56 “Fantasia Caratteristica Musicale per Banda” unidentified 57 “Fantasia per Baritono” unidentified “Fantasia per Bombardina, Sopra Motivi Nell’Opera 58 Verdi Attila” 59 “Felice Nozze” Cipollone, Pietro “Feretto per Clarino, Cornetta e Bombardino Nell’Opera 60 Donizetti La Favorita” 61 “Feste Castane, Marcia Sinfonica” Rivela 62 “Fiar L’aprile, Marcia Sinfonica” Cipollone, Pietro 63 “Finale II Nell’Opera Polinto” Donizetti 64 “Fior d’Aprile Marcia” unidentified “Fiori e Lacrime Marcia Funebre (Rock Hill Funeral 65 Cipollone, Pietro March)” 66 “Fiori e Lacrime! Marcia Funebre” Lealla 67 “Fortuna e Miseria dei Musicioti, Marcia per Banda” Bertolini, Andre 3 Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers 68 “Funeral March, All Soul’s Day” Cipollone, Pietro 69 “Funeral March All Soul’s Day” Garditi 70 “Funeral March: The Blood Baptism” Cipollone, Pietro 71 “G. D’annunzio a Trieste” Cipollone, Pietro 72 “Gatto Ottilio” unidentified 73 “General Lawton’s Last Advance” Torsiello 74 “Gimastici Marcia Militare” Rivela 75 “Gioconda, Finale 3” Ponchielli 76 “Gloria Marcia” unidentified 77 “Gone, Marcia Funebre” Petrella 78 “Gran Finale II Nell’Opera Aida” Verdi 79 “Gran Valtzer L’Usiguolo per Ottavino Re−flat” Straus 80 “Guglielmo Tell” Rossini 81 “Histoire d’un Pierrot” Costa, Marro 82 “Il Barcousto” Luciti 83 “Il Basento Marcia Sinfonica” Orlando, Roberto “Il Canto Dellle Villanelle Abru. Se. (The Song of a 84 Constantini Country Girl)” 85 “Il Canto Fogli Artisti” Cipollone, Pietro 86 “Il Di dei Morti” Carditi 87 “Il Ireno Lampo, Galopp per Banda” Bertolini, Andre 88 “Il Norge Overture” Cipollone, Pietro 89 “Il Nuovo Canzoniere, Riduzione per Banda” Cipollone, Pietro 90 “Il Mio Lavoro Sprecato, Marcia Funebre” Bertolini, Andrea 91 “Il Poeta Cibattino” Cipollone, Pietro 92 “Inno di Garibaldi” unidentified 93 “Inno Italiano” Novaro 94 “I’m Glad I’m in America” Cipollone, Pietro 95 “I Musicisti Moderni” Cipollone, Pietro 96 “Inno o Marcia Reale” Gabetti 97 “Intermezzo Sinfonico – Cavalleria Rusticana” Mascagni 98 “Ione, Marcia Funebre” Petrella 99 “I Pagliocci, Vaudeville in Un Atto” Cipollone, Pietro 100 “I Piavoli Rossi, Marcia Sinfonica” Rivela, E. 101 “I Puritani, aria e Finale II” Bellini 102 “I Pappagalli Moderni” Cipollone, Pietro 103 “In Chiesa” Cipollone, Pietro 104 "Jim Dandy" Corlton, Carl 105 “La Campana dell’Eremi Taggio” Sarria 106 “La Favorita” Donizetti 4 Pietro A. Cipollone Music and Personal Papers 107 “La Favorita, Duetto Finale Ultimo per Banda” Donizetti 108 “La Fioraia” Marchetti, Luigi 109 “La Forza del Destino, Rimembranze” Verdi 110 “La Giralda, Marcia Sinfonica” Lopez “La Liberta dei Prigiomeri Italiani in Africa, Marcia 111 Cipollone, Pietro Sinfonica" 112 “La Liberta Marcia” Lilian, A 113 “La Marsigliese” Cipollone, Pietro 114 “L’America” Cipollone, Pietro 115 “La Portenza del Corriere, Polcha Cornette Vintico” unidentified 116 “La Seducente Mazurcka per Piano−Forte” Cipollone, Pietro 117 “La Violetta” Cipollone, Pietro 118 “Le Belle Cose Brutte” Cipollone, Pietro 2 1 “Le Chevan Legirs, Marcia Militare” Wattge, M.S. 2 “Le Camelie Passo Doppio Sinfonico” Marchetti 3 “Le Campane Cubolari, Scherzo Marcia” Benedettini 4 “Le Feste a Roma, Marcia Sinfonica unidentified 5 “L’Erudizione” Cipollone, Pietro 6 “Le Rofe, Gran Valzer” unidentified 7 “Les Satineurs, Valtzer per Banda” Waldteufel 8 “Libretti Bassi" unidentified 9 “L’Ingratitudine E’una Necessita, Marcia”