Volume 1

Daniele Maffeis’s secular vocal composition in the field of chamber music is not extensive: it includes pieces related to celebratory occasions for religious or academic institutions; lyrics often dedicated to the authors of Italian or dialectal texts, and polyphonic a cappella madrigal pieces. The influence exercised by the post-Puccinian generation established around the 1930 and particularly well received in Milan is evident in the vocal lines.The volume is divided into two books: the first contains a cappella and piano accompanied pieces, and the second contains four pieces for voice and orchestra.