Enrico Cannio
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Enrico Cannio was an Italian
Italy
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 music
Music
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ian and composer
Composer
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. He initially received a diploma in piano
Piano
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 to become an orchestra conductor; he spent his whole life in Naples, and during his career he worked at three singing schools in the city. He also led three local theater orchestras, at the Eden, the Umberto, and the Trianon. He wrote for the majority of local song publishers, and collaborated with artists such as Libero Bovio
Libero Bovio
Libero Bovio , was a Neapolitan lyricist and dialect poet.Bovio was one of those responsible for the rejuvenation of Neapolitandialect in plays, poetry and song at the beginning of the twentieth...

, Ernesto Murolo, and Aniello Califano
Aniello Califano
Aniello Califano was an Italian poet and writer. He was the author of numerous Neapolitan songs, the music to which was composed by various Neapolitan composers...

. His most popular song, to a text by Califano, was "'O surdato 'nnammurato
'O surdato 'nnammurato
"'O Surdato 'Nnamurato" is one of the most famous songs ever written in the Neapolitan language. The song is generally regarded as the anthem of S.S.C. Napoli....

", published in 1915. Among his other popular songs, to texts or Libero Bovio, were "A serenata 'e Pulecenella", "Tarantella luciana" and "Carufanella".

Songs

  • "Oj ma', dammillo" (1901)
  • "Carmela mia!" (1903)
  • "'E difiette d'e ffemmene" (1907)
  • "A fussetella" (1908)
  • "'O scialacquone" (1908)
  • "A luntananza d'o suldato" (1909)
  • "Tarantella luciana" (1913)
  • "Carufanella" (1914)
  • "Vola e va..." (1914)
  • "'O surdato 'nnammurato" (1915)
  • "Povere figliole" (1915)
  • "A serenata 'e Pulecenella" (1916)
  • "Canta, Mara" (1916)
  • "Surdato italiano" (1916)
  • "Margaretè" (1917)
  • "'O surdato 'e malavita" (1917)
  • "Zetella" (1917)
  • "Cara sposina" (1918)
  • "Passa appriesso" (1918)
  • "'O portavoce" (1921)
  • "L'appuntamento" (1923)
  • "Maistà" (1925)
  • "'O squilibrato" (1931)
  • "Rusella 'e maggio" (1939).

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