Mattinata (Leoncavallo) love is born. Mattinata (Leoncavallo) "Do not confuse with songs of the same name by Ottorino Respighi and Paolo Tosti." Mattinata (; English: "Morning") was the first song ever written expressly for the Gramophone Company (the present day HMV). Composed by Ruggero Leoncavallo in 1904, this song was dedicated to Enrico Caruso, who was the first to record it in 1904 with the composer at the piano. Ever since, this piece has become a concert favourite. More than a half-century later this song was recorded by Italian-born tenor Sergio Franchi on his American-debut album, "Romantic Italian Songs" (RCA Victor Red
Girolamo Caruso 1923. On 12 November 1925, in the lecture room of Agronomy of "Istituto superiore agrario of Pisa", they placed a marble bust of Girolamo Caruso, carved by Giuseppe Michelotti, similar to those of Cosimo Ridolfi and Pietro Cuppari, wanted by Caruso himself. Alcamo, his native town, has remembered him by entitling him a street and the homonymous Technical Institute (now ITET). In 1873, in one of his introductory reports, Caruso put in evidence the social, economic, and productive implications of the "mezzadria" (called metayage in English): first of all it had to exist, from the economic point of view, for