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Massimo Amfiteatrof
Maksim Aleksandrovich Amfiteatrov (27 February 1907 – 19 December 1990), known as Massimo Amfiteatrof, was a Russian-born Italian cellist, dubbed as the "Cellists' Enrico Caruso, Caruso". (italian: ''il Caruso dei Violoncellisti'') Biography Amfiteatrof was born Maksim Aleksandrovič Amfiteatrov (russian: Максим Александрович Амфитеатров) from a Russian family. His mother, Ilaria Vladimirovna Amfiteatrova, was an actress and a singer, while his father, Alexander Amfiteatrov, was a writer and a journalist. His brother, Daniele Amfitheatrof, became an orchestra conductor. He lived in St. Petersburg until 1917. When the Russian Revolution outbroke, his family escaped to Italy and settled in Liguria, first in Cavi (a ''frazione'' of Lavagna) and then in Levanto, Liguria, Levanto, in the Province of La Spezia. In Levanto the Amfiteatrof family gave hospitality to other Russian refugees, especially artists, and made its house a well-known cultural and int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini (; ; March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. He was one of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the late 19th and early 20th century, renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his eidetic memory. He was at various times the music director of La Scala in Milan and the New York Philharmonic. Later in his career he was appointed the first music director of the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–54), and this led to his becoming a household name (especially in the United States) through his radio and television broadcasts and many recordings of the operatic and symphonic repertoire. Biography Early years Toscanini was born in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, and won a scholarship to the local music conservatory, where he studied the cello. Living conditions at the conservatory were harsh and strict. For example, the menu at the conservatory consisted almost entirely of fish; in his later years, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album ''63/19'' by Kool A.D. * ''Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album '' Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by Slipk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Massimo Amfiteatrof
Amfiteatrof Music Festival (previously known as Festival Massimo Amfiteatrof) is a classical and chamber music festival based in Levanto, an Italian ''Comune'' in the ligurian Riviera, between Genoa and La Spezia, since 1992. The festival pays tribute to Massimo Amfiteatrof (born Maksim Aleksandrovich Amfiteatrov), one of the greatest cellist of the 20th century, dubbed as the "Cellists' Caruso" (Italian: "''il Caruso dei Violoncellisti''"), who moved from St. Petersburg to Italy in the early 1920s, settling first in Cavi, a ''frazione'' of Lavagna, and then in Levanto, where he died in 1990. During his lifetime Amfiteatrof worked with Arturo Toscanini and Fabrizio De André and collaborated with EIAR and subsequently with RAI. The Festival has been being organized by Associazione Festival Massimo Amfiteatrof Levanto since its beginning and the administrative board is currently led by president Angela Fenwick The Festival Founded two years after Amfiteatrof's death, Amfite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dino Asciolla
The Quartetto Italiano ( en, Italian Quartet) was a string quartet founded in Reggio Emilia in 1945. They made their debut in 1945 in Carpi when all four players were still in their early 20s. They were originally named Nuovo Quartetto Italiano before dropping the "Nuovo" tag in 1951. They are particularly noted for their recording of the complete cycle of Beethoven string quartets, made between 1967 and 1975. The quartet disbanded in 1980. The secretary and historian of the Quartet was Guido Alberto Borciani (Reggio Emilia, 20 October 1920 – 4 April 2008), brother of Paolo Borciani, the quartet's founder and player of the 1st violin part. A mechanical engineer and talented pianist, Guido Alberto founded in 1987 the ''Premio Paolo Borciani''. Origins and activities Borciani, Pegreffi and Rossi met in 1940 at the Concorso Nazionale in La Spezia. In summer 1942 they met again at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where the cellist Arturo Bonucci (Sr.) (head of the chamb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicola Piovani
Nicola Piovani (born 26 May 1946) is an Italian light-classical musician, theater and film score composer, and winner of the 1998 Best Original Dramatic Score Oscar for the score of the Roberto Benigni film ''La Vita è bella'', better known to English-speaking audiences as ''Life Is Beautiful''. Biography After high school, Piovani enrolled at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving his degree in piano from the Verdi Conservatory in Milan in 1967, and later studied orchestration under the Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis. In 1971 and 1973 collaborated for the music of two albums of the songwriter Fabrizio De André: ''Storia di un impiegato'' and '' Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo''. In 2008, after De André departure, Piovani wrote the music for the film '' Amore che vieni, amore che vai'', inspired by a novel of De André himself, '' Un destino ridicolo''. Among his more popular works is the score for the Federico Fellini film ''Intervista'', his second of thr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Non Al Denaro Non All'amore Né Al Cielo
''Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo'' (''Neither to money, nor to love, nor to Heaven'') is an album released by Fabrizio De André. It was issued in 1971 by Produttori Associati and reissued several times by Ricordi and BMG. It is a concept album based on the Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters. The co-author of the music is composer Nicola Piovani, who later won an Academy Award for his soundtrack for Roberto Benigni's '' Life is beautiful''. The title itself is a quotation from the first poem in the '' Spoon River Anthology'', ''The Hill'': ::''Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin,'' ::''Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven?'' Track listing All lyrics by De André and Giuseppe Bentivoglio, based on poems by Edgar Lee Masters (see below); all music by De André and Nicola Piovani. # "La collina" (The Hill) (4:03) # "Un matto (dietro ogni scemo c'è un villaggio)" (A Madman - Behind every madman there is a village) (2:35) # "Un giudice" (A Judge) (2:5 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabrizio De Andre
Fabrizio is an Italian first name, from the Latin word "Faber" meaning "smith" and may refer to: * Fabrizio Barbazza (born 1963), Italian Formula One driver * Fabrizio Barca (born 1954), Italian politician * Fabrizio Brienza (born 1969), Italian model and actor * Fabrizio Castori (born 1954), Italian football coach * Fabrizio De André (1940–1999), Italian singer-songwriter * Fabrizio Faniello (born 1981), Maltese singer * Fabrizio Giovanardi (born 1966), Italian racing driver * Fabrizio Miccoli (born 1979), Italian football player * Fabrizio Moreira (born 1982), Ecuadorian politician * Fabrizio Moretti (born 1980), Brazilian-American drummer in the band The Strokes * Fabrizio Moretti (art dealer) (born 1976), Italian art dealer * Fabrizio Moro (born 1975), Italian singer-songwriter * Fabrizio Nieva (born 1964), Argentine boxer * Fabrizio Ravanelli (born 1968), Italian football player * Fabrizio Romano (born 1993), Italian journalist * Fabrizio Rongione (born 1973), Belgian scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Fasano
Renato Fasano (Naples, August 21, 1902 – Rome, August 3, 1979) was an Italian conductor and musicologist particularly associated with 18th-century Italian works. Having studied music in his native Naples, Fasano established in 1941 the chamber orchestra ''Collegium Musicum Italicum'' later renamed ''I Virtuosi di Roma''. This small orchestra helped popularize Italian Baroque music. He conducted widely in Europe works by such composers as Corelli, Vivaldi, Pergolesi, Baldassarre Galuppi, Alessandro Marcello and Giovanni Paisiello. In addition, he founded the "Piccolo Teatro Musicale Italiano" in 1957. In 1971, he conducted an acclaimed tour through Southern Africa with his "Virtuosi di Roma" chamber orchestra and cellist Radu Aldulescu. The best-known of Fasano's recordings (for RCA) is that of an opera by a non-Italian, Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice'', with Shirley Verrett, Anna Moffo and Judith Raskin Judith Raskin (June 21, 1928 – December 21, 1984) was an American lyric s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis. Its U.S. label was established in late 1934 by Lewis, Jack Kapp, American Decca's first president, and Milton Rackmil, who later became American Decca's president. In 1937, anticipating Nazi Germany, Nazi aggression leading to World War II, Lewis sold American Decca and the link between the U.K. and U.S. Decca labels was broken for several decades. The British label was renowned for its development of recording methods, while the American company developed the concept of cast albums in the musical genre. Both wings are now part of the Universal Music Group. The U.S. Decca label was the foundation company that evolved into UMG (Universal Music Group). Label name The name dates back to a portable phonograph, gramophone called the "Decca Dulcephone" patented in 1914 by musical instrument makers Barnett Samuel and Sons. The name "Decca" was coined by Wilfred S. Samuel by merging the w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruno Giuranna
Bruno Giuranna (born 6 April 1933 in Milan) is an Italian violist. Giuranna was also responsible for a transcription of Bach's Goldberg Variations The ''Goldberg Variations'', BWV 988, is a musical composition for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach, consisting of an aria and a set of 30 variations. First published in 1741, it is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may also have .... The world premiere recording of this work was made by the Trio Broz in 2008. Bruno Giuranna was also a member of the and of the Italian chamber orchestra I Musici di Roma. In 2020, Giuranna serves as president of the central board for ESTA (European String Teachers Association). Notes External links * 1933 births Living people Musicians from Milan Italian classical violists Italian music educators Academics of the Royal Academy of Music {{violist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
