1. Announcements :AudiMozart! 2010
(Announcements )

... Abbado! La domanda di partecipazione deve pervenire entro il 7 maggio 2010. Grazie! Valeria Manzinello Associazione Mozart Italia Via della Terra 48 38068 Rovereto Italy http://www.mozartitalia.org ...

2. Rossini Gioacchino
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Gioacchino Rossini Immagine Life Figlio di musicisti, ricevette le prime nozioni dai genitori e più tardi, a Lugo, anche dai fratelli Malerbi. Nel 1804 si iscrisse al Liceo ...

3. Agricola Alexander
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Agricola Alexander Life Agricola, un contemporaneo di origine franco-fiamminga di Josquin Des Prez, passò la maggior parte della sua vita in Italia. Dai suoi contemporanei fu ritenuto ...

4. Alfano Franco
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Alfano Franco Immagine Life Alfano studiò al conservatorio di Napoli (con C. De Nardis e P. Serrao), nel 1895 si perfezionò a Lipsia con H. Sitt e S. Jadassohn; di questa sua formazione ...

5. Fano, Guido Alberto
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Fano, Guido Alberto Life He began studying music at the age of nine, under the guidance of Vittorio Orefice, choir master and conductor in Padua, who gave him his first piano lessons ...

6. Adophe, Bruce
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Adophe, Bruce Life Bruce Adolphe has composed music for Itzhak Perlman, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, Sylvia McNair, ...

7. Anfossi, Pasquale
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Anfossi, Pasquale Life Pasquale Anfossi, compositor from Taggia (Liguria, Italy), takes place in a troubled moment in building his own space since there was Mozart with his successes ...

8. Arnold, Malcolm
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... becoming principal trumpet in 1942. In 1948, he won the Mendelssohn Scholarship and left the orchestra to spend a year in Italy. On his return, he quickly built up a reputation as a fluent and versatile ...

9. Baravalle, Vittorio
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Baravalle, Vittorio Life Vittorio Baravalle, born 1855 in Fossano (Cuneo, Italy), died 1942, Italian composer. He wrote a lot of works, specially stage works: "Andrea del Sarto", "Iglesias", ...

10. Berlioz, Hector
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Berlioz, Hector (1803 - 1869) Immagine Life Figlio di un medico, era talmente dotato musicalmente che a dodici anni scrisse le sue prime composizioni. Recatosi nel 1822 a Parigi, ...

11. Bononcini, Antonio Maria
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... the brother, Giovanni Bononcini, in Bologna, Rome and Vienna, where in 1705 -11 he wrote dramatic works as Kapellmeister to the emperor's brother Charles. Returning to Italy in 1713, he lived mainly in ...

12. Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Bortniansky, Dmitri Stepanovich (1751 - 1825) Life As a young man, Bortniansky studied with Baldassare Galuppi in St. Petersburg. In 1769, Bortniansky followed Galuppi to Italy (with ...

13. Bruneau, Alfred
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... a French version of the realism current in contemporary opera in Italy. Works Bruneau wrote a quantity of vocal music, in addition to his music for the theatre, with orchestral music that often ...

14. Busoni, Ferruccio
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Busoni, Ferruccio (1866 - 1924) Immagine Life Figlio di un clarinettista e di una pianista di origine tedesca, iniziò gli studi musicali con i genitori e a 9 anni fu già in grado ...

15. Campra, André
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... first success in the theatre came in 1697 with "L'Europe galante", an opéra-ballet with entrées for France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. He continued to write opéra-ballets and tragédies lyriques, generally ...

16. Cannabich, Johann
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

... Theodor gave Cannabich a royal scholarship to study music in Italy, and he travelled there to begin studies with Niccolò Jommelli in 1750, and  ...

17. Castiglioni, Niccolo'
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Castiglioni, Niccolo' (1932 - 1996) Immagine Life Niccolò Castiglioni, nato a Milano il 17.7.1932, ivi morto il 7.9.97, studiò al Conservatorio di Milano con Giorgio ...

18. Cesti, Antonio
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Cesti, Antonio (1623 - 1669) Life opo aver prestato servizio come cantore nel coro di Arezzo, Cesti prese gli ordini Francescani alla Congregazione provinciale di Volterra nel 1637. La ...

19. Chailly, Luciano
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Chailly, Luciano (1920 - 2002) Life Luciano Chailly, born 19 January 1920, Ferrara, Italy. He studied in Bologna and Milan and with Hindemith in Salzburg. He was artistic director ...

20. Qu, Xiao-Song
(Type: Composer | Sezione: Composers Biographies)

Compositore Qu, Xiao-Song (b. 1952) Life Qu  was born in southwestern China in 1952. In 1968, after completinq middle school he was sent down to the countryside during the Cultural Revolution, ...