Franco Margola

Franco Margola ( born October 30, 1908 in Orzinuovi; † 9 March 1992 Nave ) was an Italian composer.

Margola studied until 1926 in Brescia violin with Romano Romanini and solfeggio, harmony and piano with Isidoro Capitanio. Until 1933 he continued his education in Parma in Guido Guerrini, Carlo Jachino and Achille Longo. During this time wrote his first compositions as Il Campaniello delle Streghe, for which the received first prize at the Chamber Music Competition of Naples, and a piano quintet.

In 1933 he met Alfredo Casella, who encouraged him to other compositions and his trio in La ( 1933-34 ) with the Trio Italiano in Italy and performed abroad. The work was with the Silvio Rispoli price of Naples Award in 1936 and selected as one of Italy's contributions to the Festival of Contemporary Music in Venedin.

From 1936 to 1939 taught at the Istituto Margola Venturo in Brescia. There he founded a small string orchestra made ​​up of students of the Institute and other music schools, which occurred in 1938 with the young Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. In 1939 he went as a director at the music high school in Messina, a few years later he took over the same function at the Conservatorio Pierluigi Palestrina in Cagliari. During this time a number of important compositions Margolas, including the operas Il mito di Caino and Il Titone and the Sinfonia delle Isole arose.

1944 Margola was deported to Germany. After the war he returned to Brescia. From 1950 to 1952 he taught then counterpoint and harmony at the Conservatory of Bologna and conducted the orchestra of the Associazione Amici della Musica. He then went to the Conservatory of Milan ( until 1957 ) and the Accademia Stanta Cecila in Rome (until 1960 ) and was from 1963 to 1975 at the Conservatory Arrigo Boito in Parma.

In addition to three piano concertos - including the "Children's Concert " and a Benedetti Michelangeli work dedicated to the 1948 -, oboe, horn, bassoon, violin and cello concertos composed Margola several string quartets and numerous other chamber works as instrumental sonatas, songs, pieces for piano and guitar. He also wrote several textbooks on harmony and composition.

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  • Nomos Edition - Franco Margola
  • Italian composer
  • Music teacher
  • Born in 1908
  • Died in 1992
  • Man
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