Crossword-Solution: SONZOGNO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 18

Mendes's books in my life--"Zo Hur" and "La Premiere Maitresse." When I read at Marienbad a little while ago the newspaper notices on the production of "La Femme de Tabarin" I even wrote to you, dear Signor Sonzogno, thinking this was an imitation of "Pagliacci." This assertion will suffice, coming from an honorable man, to prove my loyalty.

Then came notice of the Sonzogno competition and I eagerly seized the opportunity to better my condition.

There he became director of a school for orchestral players, though he had first to learn to play the instruments; he also taught pianoforte and thoroughbass, and eked out a troublous existence until his success in competition for the prize offered by Sonzogno, the Milanese publisher, made him famous in a day and started him on the road to wealth.

For a few years he made a precarious living in obscure towns, by teaching, and had at last reached desperate extremities when one day he read in a newspaper that Sonzogno, the music publisher, had offered prizes for the three best one act operas, to be performed in Rome.

CHAPTER XX MILAN--LONDON--BAYREUTH I regret all the more that I have given up traveling, for I seem to have become lazy in this regard, since my visits to Milan were always so delightful--I was going to say adorable--thanks to the friendly Edouard Sonzogno, who constantly paid me the most delicate and kindly attentions.