Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.
Biography
Born in
Verona
Verona ( , ; vec, Verona or ) is a city on the Adige River in Veneto, Northern Italy, Italy, with 258,031 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region. It is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and the ...
, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the
Milan Conservatory
The Milan Conservatory (''Conservatorio di Milano'') is a college of music in Milan, Italy.
History
The conservatory was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year ...
and, from 1948, at the
Bologna Conservatory
The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini (previously known as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and sometimes referred to in English as the Bologna Conservatory) is a college of music in Bologna, Italy. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804 ...
.
At least three generations of composers studied with Donatoni. Among his Italian pupils were
Sandro Gorli,
Roberto Carnevale
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Biography and career
Born in Catania, he started studying piano at the age of seven. He took a degree in Arts at the University of Catania and he attended th ...
,
Giulio Castagnoli,
Ivan Fedele
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Fedele's compositions are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, and many of his works are recorded on Stradivarius Records.
Selected works
;S ...
,
Luca Mosca,
Riccardo Piacentini,
Fausto Romitelli
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Life and career
Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently took part in courses at the Acc ...
,
Luc Brewaeys
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,
Pietro Borradori,
Giuseppe Sinopoli
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Biography
Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin ...
,
Alessandro Solbiati
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, and
Piero Niro; his foreign pupils include
Michael Dellaira
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Early life and career
Dellaira was born Michael Dellario in S ...
,
Pascal Dusapin
Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy.
A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse, Dusapin studied at the University of Paris I ...
,
Sylvie Bodorová,
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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,
Magnus Lindberg
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,
Katia Tiutiunnik
Katia Tiutiunnik (born 19 March 1967 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian composer, scholar and violist. She is of Russian, Ukrainian and Irish descent.
Education
Katia Tiutiunnik's high school education was completed at Our Lady of Mercy Col ...
,
Javier Torres Maldonado
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Biography
Born in Chetumal (Mexico), José Javier Torres Maldonado studied violin and co ...
, and
Juan Trigos
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Biography
Juan Trigos was born in Mexico City, and studied music at the National Conservatory and the Instituto de Liturg ...
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Donatoni died in Milan in 2000.
Works
References
Works cited
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Further reading
*
Barkl, Michael. 2018. ''Etwas ruhiger im Ausdruck: Franco Donatoni's Crisis''. Beau Bassin: Lambert Academic Publishing. .
*Luppi, Guillermo. 2016. "Shedding Some Light on Donatoni's ''Lumen''". ''
Perspectives of New Music
''Perspectives of New Music'' (PNM) is a peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It was established in 1962 by Arthur Berger and Benjamin Boretz (who were its initial editors-in-chief).
''Perspectives'' was first ...
'' 54, no. 1 (Winter): 179–195.
External links
Obituaryin ''
The Musical Times
''The Musical Times'' is an academic journal of classical music edited and produced in the United Kingdom and currently the oldest such journal still being published in the country.
It was originally created by Joseph Mainzer in 1842 as ''Mainze ...
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A reminiscence of Donatoni by Jeffrey Levine
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1927 births
2000 deaths
Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni
Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni
Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni
Milan Conservatory alumni
Musicians from Verona
20th-century classical composers
International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners
20th-century Italian composers
Twelve-tone and serial composers
20th-century Italian male musicians
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