sonzogno

Updated: May 10, 2025

For a few years he made a precarious living in obscure towns, by teaching, and had at last reached desperate extremities when one day he read in a newspaper that Sonzogno, the music publisher, had offered prizes for the three best one act operas, to be performed in Rome. He at once entered into the competition, and produced "Cavalleria Rusticana." It took the first prize.

George P. (George Putnam) Upton - The Standard Operas (12th edition) : Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers