Editing Saverio Mercadante (section)

===Later works===
[[File:Saverio Mercadante by F. Garibotti - Archivio Storico Ricordi ICON010747 B.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Saverio Mercadante, composer (1836-1870).]]
Some of Mercadante's later works, especially ''[[Orazi e Curiazi]]'', were also quite successful. Many performances of his operas were given throughout the 19th century and it has been noted that some of them received far more than those of Verdi's early operas over the same period of time.<ref>{{harvnb|Kaufman|1997}}: For example, ''Il giuramento'' received 400 performances and ''La vestale'' 150 compared to ''Giovanna d'Arco'', ''Don Carlo'' (in all its versions), and ''Aroldo''{{'}}s approx. 90 each.</ref>

Throughout his life he generated more instrumental works than most of his contemporary composers of operas due to his lifelong preoccupation with [[orchestration]], and, from 1840, his position as the Director of the Naples conservatory for the last thirty years of his life.<ref name="RCAFluteConcertos"/> From 1863 he was almost totally blind and dictated all his compositions.<ref name="zucker" />

In the decades after his death in Naples in 1870, his output was largely forgotten, but it has been occasionally revived and recorded since World War II, although it has yet to achieve anything like the present-day popularity of the most famous compositions by his slightly younger contemporaries: see [[Gaetano Donizetti#Donizetti's compositions|Donizetti's compositions]] and [[Vincenzo Bellini#Complete works of Bellini|Bellini's compositions]].

The French soloist [[Jean-Pierre Rampal]] notably recorded several Mercadante concertos for flute and string orchestra,{{efn|1=Not all the concertos are for string orchestra. Some are for larger ensembles. The Concerto in E minor, is, however, for flute and strings.}} including the grand and romantic E minor concerto, which has since gained some popularity among concert flautists.
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