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...likely to succeed Puccini in popular vogue, and it may be that the reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America at least???for Italian orchestral compositions. Italian symphonic music was for centuries a byword for insignificance, but the new modernists of the peninsula are pushing forward at a great rate. Many of the copyrights on their works, however, are held by German and Austrian publishers, since Italian publishers have generally regarded symphonic...