{"id":1444,"date":"2010-07-21T11:22:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T09:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2017-08-23T23:01:11","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T21:01:11","slug":"espoirs-perdus-speranze-perdute-alessandro-morelli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"Espoirs Perdus &#8211; Speranze Perdute &#8211; The Famous Mandolin Tune by Alessandro Morelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"watch-headline-title\">Last week I have got a bunch of old sheet music from France, including a book Mandoline-Album with six tunes composed by Alessandro Morelli. I played the tunes and I liked it immediately. When I tried to find out more about Alessandro Morelli I did not find much information about himself, but I found that one of his compositions &#8211; the last tune in my book <strong>Espoirs Perdus<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 is very famous and played frequently by mandolin and especially ba accordeon players.<\/p>\n<p>Alessandro Morelli must have been active in France, the pieces in his book are all dedicated to french musicienas and friends, this is the dedication of Espoirs Perdus:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>A Mademoiselle Louise PAULUCCI Hommage<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have found the following historic recording of <strong>Speranze Perdute<\/strong> &#8211; this is the Italian titel of the tune &#8211; played by a quintet named <strong>Quintetto Spensierato<\/strong>, the melody is partially played by a mandolin:<\/p>\n<h4>Quintetto Spensierato &#8211; Speranze Perdute (Morelli) 1941<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speranze Perdute (Originale 1941) - quintetto spensierato  (Morelli)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9D0YZ0WFqnU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>A good recording with mandolin and guitar by <strong>Egidio Faiella<\/strong> is available for download at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandolinista.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mandolinista.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following duo plays with much energy, but for me the guitar player is much to straight and strong, but the mandolin player plays ok.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Speranze perdute<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Un evergreen suonato con chitarra e mandolino dai fratelli Maione di Torre del Greco<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speranze perdute\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jaUPrPt6fO8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Another recording form Italy with mandolin and guitar with three melodies, the second one is Speranze Perdute:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Due strimpellatori di paese, di Luigi Paternostro<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>One-step&#8230; paesano. Speranze perdute. Ritorno da Torino<br \/>\nVincenzo Perrone alla chitarra, Luigi Paternostro al mandolino<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Due strimpellatori di paese, di Luigi Paternostro\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XpaLu9KRc6c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>And another one played with mandolin:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">Speranze Perdute &#8211; u zu Giuvanni<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speranze  Perdute -  u zu Giuvanni\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnlZBuNK8mw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Finally I have a typically French Musette version with accordeon, clarinet, banjo and piano &#8211; played by a Japanese group:<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"watch-headline-title\">ESPOIRS PERDUS\/\u5931\u308f\u308c\u3057\u5e0c\u671b<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ESPOIRS PERDUS\/\u5931\u308f\u308c\u3057\u5e0c\u671b\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xpkR8sz4QOs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Playliste Speranze Perdute<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Speranze Perdute - Morelli\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo_aJmYZRZvS-QXJSf1J6uq_\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h2>Additional information about Speranze Perdute \/ Espoirs Perdus \/ Alessandro Morelli<\/h2>\n<p>The complete Mandoline-Album by Alessandro Morelli as PDF on my homepage on page free sheetmusic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.de\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.mandoisland.de<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discussion about\u00a0 <strong>Speranze Perdute<\/strong> in the Mandolin Cafe with links and free sheetmusic: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mandolincafe.com\/forum\/showthread.php?61564-Speranze-Perdute&amp;highlight=speranze+perdute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.mandolincafe.com\/forum\/showthread.php?61564-Speranze-Perdute&amp;highlight=speranze+perdute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I have got a bunch of old sheet music from France, including a book Mandoline-Album with six tunes composed by Alessandro Morelli. I played the tunes and I liked it immediately. When I tried to find out more about Alessandro Morelli I did not find much information about himself, but I found that 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