Franck, César - Stradella - Various Artists
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Sometimes a particular song will, if only briefly, grab the public's interest and attention to a degree out of all proportion to its real merits. In some instances, such as when Vera Lynn sang We'll meet again in 1939, it may have captured the Zeitgeist in an obvious way. In others, its wide appeal can be utterly perplexing: Joe Dolce's Shaddap you face, anyone? Thus, in 1833, a new aria suddenly became all the rage among the beau monde of Paris. Even though it is now thought to have been written by the 19th century composer François-Joseph Fétis, Sei i miei so sospiri was instead attributed at the time to the Italian composer, embezzler and serial seducer Alessandro Stradella (1644-1682). That aria's "rediscovery" provoked a new wave of interest in Stradella and, as details of his life emerged, his colourful Casanova-like exploits quickly became a popular subject for operatic treatment. Virginio Marchi's Il cantore di Venezia of 1835 was followed within little more than a decade by fanciful versions of the same story from Louis Niedermeyer (Stradella, 1837), the rather better remembered Friedrich von Flotow (Alessandro Stradella, 1844) and Vincenzo Moscuzza (Stradella il trovatore, 1850). As a budding composer at the time, the teenaged César Franck added his own contribution to the genre, Stradella (1841), now so long-forgotten that The Oxford Dictionary of Opera (John Warrack and Ewan West, Oxford, 1992, p.682) fails to mention it at all.