Respighi: Piano Music

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Cat No: 8553704

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099470421

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: RESPIGHI

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Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) Piano MusicOttorino Respighi was born in Bologna in 1879 and studied the violin andviola at the Liceo Musicale there from 1891 with Federico Sarti. At the sametime he took lessons in composition, at first from the musicologist Luigi Torchi,who had returned to Bologna from the Liceo Rossini in Pesaro in the same year,and later from the composer Giuseppe Martucci, who was director of the Liceo inBologna until 1902. In 1899 Respighi completed his studies and the followingyear went to St Petersburg as principal viola-player at the Imperial opera. InRussia, where he spent the seasons of 1901-1902 and 1903-1904, he took lessonsin composition and orchestration from Rimsky-Korsakov.During the first decade of the new century Respighi won a reputation as aperformer, while pursuing his growing interest in earlier music and incomposition. In Berlin in 1908 and 1909 he attended lectures by Max Bruch, butto relatively little effect. The influence of Rimsky-Korsakov, however, remainedwith him, guiding his bold use of orchestral colour in the music he wrote. Theseyears brought a series of compositions. In 1902 a piano concerto of his wasperformed in Bologna and his Notturno of 1905 was played in New Yorkunder Rodolfo Ferrari. In the same year his opera R?¿ Enzo was staged inBologna, to be followed five years later by Semirama, these operasproving successful enough to bring about his appointment in 1913 as a teacher ofcomposition at the Liceo Santa Cecilia in RomeIn 1919 Respighi married the singer Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo and in 1924 hebecame director of the Santa Cecilia, resigning two years later to devotehimself to composition, although he continued to teach and to perform inconcerts and recitals as a conductor and as an accompanist to his wife. He diedin 1936 at the house he had named after one of his most famous works, I Pini,referring to the symphonic poems Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome), one ofthree effective and now familiar works of his associated with aspects of thecity, Feste Romane (Roman Festivals) and Fontane di Roma (Fountainsof Rome).In 1917 Respighi published his first set of arrangements of ancient dancesand airs, the Antiche arie e danze per liuto, orchestral versions ofearlier Italian lute music, transcribed from tablature. He made furtherarrangements from the same source for piano. As in the arrangement of Rossinianafor Dyagilev's La boutique fautasque, he remains generally faithful tothe original harmonies, avoiding the more radical procedures used by Stravinskyin Pulcinella. The keyboard-writing, however, is designed for the modernpiano, using with discretion the fuller possibilities of the instrument Thetranscriptions start with Balletto detto Il Conte Orlando, by SimoneMolinaro, who spent his career in his native Genoa. Molinaro's first book ofmusic for lute, in tablature, was published in Venice in 1599. The dance, in Dmajor, frames a contrasting minor section. It is followed by a Villanella, thework of an an
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