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Franchetti
Franchetti is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Afdera Franchetti (born 1931), Italian noblewoman * Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942), Italian opera composer * Arnold Franchetti (1911–1993), Italian composer, son of Alberto * Leopoldo Franchetti (1847–1917), Italian publicist and politician * Raimondo Franchetti (1889–1935), Italian nobleman and explorer * Rina Franchetti Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * '' The Peddler and ... (1907–2010), Italian actress * Virgil Franchetti (born 1954), Scottish football player {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Franchetti
Alberto Franchetti (18 September 1860 – 4 August 1942) was an Italian composer, best known for the 1902 opera ''Germania''. Biography Alberto Franchetti was born in Turin, a Jewish nobleman of independent means. He studied first in Venice, then at the Munich Conservatory under Josef Rheinberger, and finally in Dresden under Felix Draeseke. His first major success occurred in 1888 with his opera ''Asrael''. His operatic style combined Wagnerianism and the traits of Meyerbeer with Italian verismo. During his life, critics sometimes referred to him as the "Meyerbeer of modern Italy." The words of music critic G. B. Nappi sum up Franchetti's primary talents: "His character is perhaps unsuitable for passionate dramas, but rather for those subjects, where the fantastic, romantic and epic are required in the symphonic texture and large choral pictures. In this regard Alberto Franchetti knows that he has no rival" (from "Orfeo" 6.3, 1915). ''Grove'' considers '' Cristoforo Col ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Franchetti
Arnold Franchetti (1911–1993) was a composer born in Lucca, Italy who later emigrated to the United States. Early life As a boy, Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, Baron Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942). Baron Franchetti was a wealthy, well-respected and successful composer of the operas often performed at La Scala including ''Germania'' (performed by Enrico Caruso, conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and ''Christoforo Colombo''. Arnold Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, music at the Salzburg Mozarteum, and then moved to Munich from 1937 to 1939, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss.Imanuel Willheim, "Franchetti, Arnold". Oxford Music Online. Accessed December 23, 2011. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance in the Italian Alps where he helped Allied airmen escape. In the USA Franchetti emigrated to the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopoldo Franchetti
Leopoldo Franchetti (; 31 May 1847 – 4 November 1917) was an Italian publicist, politician, and patron. He was a deputy in the Italian Chamber of Deputies and later became a Senator. He was very active in promoting education and concrete solutions for economic, social and political problems in Italy both through his own political initiatives and through his support of his wife Alice Hallgarten. Early life Franchetti was born in Livorno into a family in good standing. The Franchetti family came to Livorno from Tunisia in the last decades of the eighteenth century. From the Napoleonic era to the second half of the 1830s they were one of the most important families in the local Jewish community.Una storia di famiglia: i Franchetti dalle coste del Medi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Afdera Franchetti
Afdera Franchetti (born 8 July 1931) is an Italian baroness, descended from an old Jewish family of Venice which intermarried with the Rothschild family and who eventually converted to Roman Catholicism. Franchetti is known for being the fourth wife of American actor Henry Fonda. Family The Italian Jewish Franchetti family, from the 18th century, was one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean. Afdera Franchetti was the daughter of Baron Raimondo Franchetti, a famous explorer who travelled extensively in Ethiopia and charted hitherto unexplored territories (Dancalia) during the 1920s. On his return from an expedition to Ethiopia, his plane exploded over Cairo in 1935. Raimondo's grandmother was Sara Louise de Rothschild (1834–1924). Her brother, the Baron Raimondo Nanuk Franchetti, was a friend of author Ernest Hemingway, who hunted with him in Caorle Lagoon. Marriage to Howard Taylor and Henry Fonda Afdera Franchetti was married to Howard Taylor from 1954 to 1957. They ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raimondo Franchetti
Baron Raimondo Franchetti has been the name of more than one Italian Baron, of the noble Franchetti family. The Franchettis were an Italian Jewish family who, from the 18th century onwards, were one of the wealthiest families in the Mediterranean.''L'Europe méditerranéenne'', (Peter Lang, 2008) By Marta Petricioli, page 99 They were originally a Mantuan family. The most famous member of the family named Baron Raimondo Franchetti lived from 1889 until his death in an airplane crash in Cairo in 1935 with a group of Italians, including Luigi Razza, minister of public works in the cabinet of Benito Mussolini. Family His grandfather, also Baron Raimondo Franchetti, married Louise Sarah Rothschild into the Rothschild banking family. References V.Isacchini,(2005) ''Il 10° parallelo - vita di Raimondo Franchetti da Salgari alla Guerra d'Africa'', (Aliberti, Reggio Emilia Reggio nell'Emilia ( egl, Rèz; la, Regium Lepidi), usually referred to as Reggio Emilia, or simply Regg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rina Franchetti
Rina Franchetti (23 December 1907 – 18 August 2010) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1932 and 1990. Selected filmography * '' Two Happy Hearts'' (1932) * '' La segretaria per tutti'' (1933) * '' The Peddler and the Lady'' (1943) * '' Women and Brigands'' (1950) * '' The Wayward Wife'' (1953) * ''The Steel Rope'' (1953) * '' The White Angel'' (1955) * ''Atom Age Vampire'' (1963) * '' Three Nights of Love'' (1964) * '' Gunman Sent by God'' (1968) * ''Italian Graffiti'' (1973) * ''Somewhere Beyond Love ''Somewhere Beyond Love'' ( it, Delitto d'amore) is a 1974 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Comencini. It was entered into the 1974 Cannes Film Festival. It won the Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. Cast * Giuliano Gemma - ...'' (1974) References External links * 1907 births 2010 deaths Italian film actresses Italian centenarians Actresses from Naples 20th-century Italian actresses Women centenarians {{It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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