THE NEAPOLITAN SONG AND HER/IT
Sorrento has been settled in songs that have fate the turn of the world. Famous artists of the song from Henry Caruso to Roberto Murolo to Luciano Pavarotti to Katia Ricciarelli to Lucio Da her and to as other teachers from the gold uvula they are exhibited in international concerts with a repertoire of songs whose verses, cheerful but to veined lines of melancholy, you/they have told of Sorrento to the world.
We quote only some of it among the more notes with some anecdote that concerns their birth:
Caruso of L. Da her (1980) In the double live “DallAmeriCaruso” (1986) the held song the masterpiece of Lucio Da she is inserted, “Caruso”. It was composed in the summer in the hotel Excelsior Vittoria of Sorrento, where the way Henry Caruso spent his/her last days. It is an agonizing rivisitazione of the theme "You I love assaie" of Donizetti in melodic-Neapolitan key. With the nine million of copies sold all over the world in about ten versions (one of which edited by the way Pavarotti) it is all over the world one of the most known songs.



Anema and core of S. Di Esposito and Manlio (1948). You composition of the song to Sorrento to work of Salutes Of Esposito is testified by the headstone memory close to the front door of the house of the writer in Progress Italy in which you/he/she had always lived with the family: "Here the Teacher Hi of Esposito, author of famous melodies and of "Anema and core", in the family education, the musical youth lived, before flying toward radiant successes". (22.1.83).

Napule and Surriento of E. Murolo (1926)
Mandulinata to Surriento of E.A.Mario (1922)

Serenade to Surriento of Aniello Califano. (1907). you tells that one day, having also come to Sorrento to receive some dense ones some ownerships of family, the poet it went him to make visit to his/her friend mayor, William Tramontano. He/she met in his/her hotel Giambattista de Curtis, Savior Gambardella and other exponents of the poetry and the music Neapolitan of the epoch. The mayor of it aprrofittò to solicit the ego of the teacher, in fact it told him that the de Curtis, that was not native of Sorrento, had devoted the verses of a song become shortly famous all over the world to Sorrento, contrarily of him. Aniello Califano - that you/he/she had also written others you pour to Sorrento, also musicati - stings on the I live, it turned him to Gambardella, telling him: "Saved', you write" and he/she dictated the verses of that that it was "Serenade to Surriento" that the same musician musicò.
And to such intention he tells that, a few years later, he going to the "Desert" of Sorrento, in the place Sant' Agatha, in visit in the convent of the Grey Fathers, which gave a part of the collections of his "new" song on Sorrento, was invited by his/her Father Prior to write some verses of the same song, undersigning them in the register of the visitors. After some months he/she knew that the monk had made to photograph such sheet of the register and, having realized of it of the postcards "memory", the "he sold" to the visitors. It was cross from such "subterfuge" and been decided to interest a legal for a' action of reimbursement of the damages, but, in the preceding night to the signature of the order, he/she dreamt his/her mother that invited him/it to desist because it was not convenient "to put on against a' work of the Church". And him rinunziò to every action.



Kind Surriento, of Enzo Lucio Murolo, “sceneggiata” represented in 1919. Her as form of economic show it is born, built on a text theatrical writing inside which song, recitation and dance cohabit. This typology of show is born in a critical period for Italy, we are in the following period to the defeat of Caporetto and the State it imposes elevated taxes to the shows of variety to fight the I degrade and the improvisation.


It returns to Surriento of Giambattista and Ernesto De Curtis 1902. One of the most famous songs in the world were born by chance in distant 15 September 1902. You tells that him then Head of the government, Joseph Zanardelli is stopped to Sorrento to rest himself/herself/themselves before facing the trip to the time of the Basilicata. The owner of the hotel where it lodged Zanardelli, the sig, William Tramontano, as mayor churches to the minister a postal office of first class. The minister promised and seems whether to do yes that he didn't forget the promise, his/her brothers De Curtis composed the famous one you/he/she Returns to Surriento that, therefore, as song of occasion was born with esplicit references to the postal uffico. Two years after the two musicians, on application of the publishing Bideri, they modified the verses of the song and they sang her/it to Piedigrotta when Zanardelli was already corpse and Sorrento you/he/she had seen granted his/her application.