I was traveling along my merry way a few days back and a young woman had walked up to me with a few questions about myself, I answered to be polite.
Question: Describe where you are from and give me information about your family.
Answer: Well, signora, I was born at Capua in Campania, a southern region of Italy, on the 6th of January in 1856. My father’s name was Gaetano Martucci. My father was the one who brought music to life for me, for he played trumpet and was a bandmaster himself. At the age of 8, I made my “debut for playing piano (Stevenson).” My sister Teresa was even younger at the time. Three years later, I truly began my rode to my career.
At the age of 11, I was placed into the Naples Conservatory, being considered a child prodigy for my piano playing at the age of 8. I was placed under Beniamino Cesi for piano and Paolo Serrao for composition. (Stevenson). My father pulls me out at age 15 and I begin my concert career.
Question: What events in your early life made you get interested in the arts?
Answer: Being born to a man like my father, got me interested in the arts. He seemingly encouraged me to begin playing when he taught me the beginnings of music. When he put me into the Naples Conservatory and pulled me out, and when he helped me begin my concert career they all helped my interested in the arts begin and stay strong.
Question: What role did mentors play in helping you develop the interests and talents you have as an artist?
Answer: They gave me the chance to open up and begin my career. Working with Cesi and Serrao, improved my skills as a musician and artist.
Question: What was the world of art like in your particular art field when you entered it?
Answer: The romantic era was dying off (Matthews) and my fellow Italiano’s were stuck in the Operatic phase.
Question: How did the major cultural, economic and political situations of the time impact your work?
Answer: The Italian unification did not effect my work. As a country we "boast vulnerable and ancient traditions that link the present with storied past"(Nickson) My work mainly kept to our tradition, except I swayed from the opera. The fight for the unity of Italy had no major affect on my work.
Question: What were your major accomplishments and the methods you used in your art?
Answer: One of my major accomplishments was beginning to change the ideas of Italian composers from the Romantic era and the opera.
Question: What were the key opportunities you had that led to turning points in your life and art?
Answer: Well that m'dear is of course the acceptance into the Naples Conservatory and being pulled out to begin my work early in life. I wish I could say more but I had already elaborated enough on the subject.
Question: What hardships or roadblocks did you have to overcome in order to be an artist?
Answer: The amount of Operas that had been flooding out of Italy at the time left little room for the symphonies and other works to bloom.
Question: Who are people that you admire both in the arts and beyond and why do they inspire you?
Answer: This would have to be my father. e gave me the chance to open myself to the wonderful world of the arts and to begin my journey of making a difference to the musical world.
Stevenson, Joseph. "Giuseppe Martucci:Biography." All Music. Rovi Corporation, n.d. Web. 2 Mar 2012. <http://www.allmusic.com/
Nickson, Chris. "Italy." NatGeo Music. National Geographic Society, n.d. Web. 2 Mar 2012. <http://worldmusic.
Matthews, Jeff. "Obscure Composers." Around Naples Encyclopeadia. Jeff Matthews, April 2008. Web. 2 Mar 2012. <http://ac-support.europe.
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