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This is the first English language biography of Ottorino Respighi, the most performed Italian composer of the twentieth century. Best known for his so-called Roman trilogy, (Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome and Roman Festivals), this book documents the story of his rise to fame and offers a fascinating insight into the active lifestyle of an internationally renowned musician, who made an important contribution to the revival of interest in early music. It also takes a closer look at Respighi’s associations with eminent figures such as Arturo Toscanini, Serge Diaghilev, Gabriele D’Annunzio and even Albert Einstein which make his story deeply engaging and take us beyond the realms of music into a world of Russian émigrés, wealthy patrons and Nobel Prize winners, while also documenting some of the early effects of fascism on art and culture.
Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936): An Annotated Bibliography provides documentation and annotation of all of this great composer's articles, books, theses, and dissertations with references to Respighi and his music published during the last century throughout the world. Lee G. Barrow provides a comprehensive general index as well as both a discography and an index of Respighi's compositions.
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Steven G. Estrella offers information about the works of the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936). The information is provided as part of Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers. Respighi composed operas, orchestral works, ballet music, chamber pieces, songs, and choral works. A list of Respighi's major works and a bibliography on the composer are available. Links to other related Web sites are offered.
Unanimously considered a master of orchestration, even before being a great symphonic composer, Ottorino Respighi was a cosmopolitan musician from a young age. After studying composition with Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna, he had crucial lessons with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. His Sinfonia Drammatica is the only composition he wrote in the form of a symphony (the Roman triptych - Pini di Roma; Fontane di Roma; Feste Romane - it is in fact a series of symphonic poems). It is a large page (lasting about an hour), in three movements completed in 1914, which reflects in itself a series of influences such as those of Rinsky-Korsakov, Scriabin, Franck, Mahler, Wagner, Bruckner, Debussy, Reger and Str...