Adolfo Fumagalli

Adolfo Fumagalli (* October 19, 1828 in Inzago; † May 3, 1856 in Florence ) was an Italian pianist and composer.

Biography

Fumagalli studied from 1837 to 1847 at the Conservatory of Milan, piano, harmony, counterpoint and composition. In 1840 Fumagalli his first public appearance as a pianist in the hall of the Conservatory. He played variations on a march from the opera L' assedio di Corinto by Gioachino Rossini.

Late 1840s Fumagalli went to Paris, where he soon earned a reputation as a virtuoso pianist and became known musicians like Giacomo Meyerbeer and Berlioz. Some of his compositions published by the Publisher Bonoldi, whose daughter Anna Fumagalli married in 1852.

He has appeared since the early 1850s in the major Italian cities (Milan, Turin, Genoa, Venice, Bergamo, Trieste ), France ( Nice, Paris, Lyon, Marseille) and Belgium ( Mons, Liège, Brussels). Franz Liszt wrote in a letter from 1853, he reveres him as a pianist of the first order.

1856 could be Fumagalli down with his family in Florence. He died in May 1856 of tuberculosis and was buried in the cemetery of San Miniato.

Fumagalli composed over 100 piano works, including numerous adaptations of operas and other works for the piano. Even his brothers Carlo, Polibio, Disma Fumagalli Luca and became known as the composer.