Camillo Togni

Camillo Togni ( born October 18, 1922 in Gussago, † November 28, 1993 in Brescia) was an Italian composer, music teacher and pianist.

Togni studied at the University of Pavia philosophy and at the same time the piano with Giovanni Anfossi and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and composition with Franco Margola and Alfredo Casella. Between 1950 and 1955 he took part in the Darmstadt Summer Courses. He dealt with the works of Jean -Paul Sartre, Charles d' Orléans, TS Eliot and Georg Trakl, whose texts chamber music works such as Helian and singing at night and the opera Bluebeard and Barrabas based.

With the rondeaux by Dieci for soprano and nine instruments Togni won the 1965 Chamber Music Award of the Società Italiana di Musica Contemporanea ( SIMC ). From 1978 to 1988 he taught at the conservatory of Parma, then he gave courses at the Music School of Fiesole.

Works

  • I Canti di prigionia, 1938-41
  • Otto pezzi per sette strumenti, 1941
  • Serenata for piano, 1942
  • Hellian, 1955
  • Tre capricci, 1957
  • Rondeaux per 10, 1964
  • Tre pezzi per corno e orchestra, 1972
  • Bluebeard, opera, 1977
  • Trio d' archi, 1978
  • Barrabas, opera, 1985

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  • Italian composer
  • Classic pianist
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1922
  • Died in 1993
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