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The Effect of Art Music on Pompeo Coppini: Greatest Sculptor of Texas Monuments

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Valentino Belfiglio

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5526/2016.11.004

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Texas Woman’s University, USA

ABSTRACT

Art music has the ability to communicate, entertain, and inspire other artists. Opera is a dramatic multimedia genre which fuses solo and choral singing with instrumental accompaniment, dance, staging, costumes, scenery, and libretto. This multimedia approach can inspire painters, sculptors, poets, writers, and other musicians in their works. Italian opera greatly inspired Pompeo Coppini—the Italian sculptor. In particular, scenes and arias by Verdi and Puccini correlate with specific tasks involved in the creation of a monument. In creating the Alamo cenotaph, Coppini often played Gioacchino Rossini’s opera, “William Tell” (1829) correlating the sacrifices made by Texans for their independence at the Alamo (1836) with the sacrifices made by Swiss patriots in their independence from Austrian tyranny. This case study suggests that art music can enhance creativity and visual attention among artists of all genres.

KEYWORDS

Art music, opera, sculpture, inspiration

Cite this paper

Sociology Study, November 2016, Vol. 6, No. 11, 706-712

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