Ildebrando Pizzetti

Ildebrando Pizzetti ( born September 20, 1880 in Parma, † February 13, 1968 in Rome) was an Italian composer.

Life

Pizzetti took piano lessons from his father ODOARDO Pizzetti and studied from 1895 to 1901 when Giovanni Tebaldini composition. He became known through the incidental music for La Nave by Gabriele d' Annunzio, which was premiered in 1908. In this year he became a teacher of composition at the Conservatory of Florence, which he headed from 1917. Since 1924 he was the director of the Conservatory of Milan, since 1936 he taught composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He was one of the most effective composition teachers of his time and is next to Alfredo Casella, Gian Francesco Malipiero as the founder of modern Italian music. Pizetti was an active supporter of Italian fascism and signed the 1925 " Manifesto degli intellettuali fascisti ".

He composed thirteen operas, incidental music pieces, a symphony (1940 ), a piano, a harp and a cello concerto, two violin concertos, chamber music, a Requiem (1922 ), a De Profundis (1938 ), choral works and songs. In addition, he also wrote several music-theoretical writings. For the monumental Fascist propaganda film Scipione l' Africano, he wrote the music. In 1958 he was awarded an international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize.

Operas

• Fedra (1906-1915)
• Debora e Jaele (1915-1921)
• Lo straniero (1922-1925)
• Fra Gherardo (1925-1927)
• Orseolo (1931-1935); Premiere May 4, 1935 Teatro Comunale de Firenze, Florence
• L' oro (1938-1942)
• Vanna Lupa (1947-1949)
• Iphigenia (1950 )
• Cagliostro (1952 )
• La figlia di Jorio (1952-1954)
• Assassinio nella cattedrale (1955-1957)
• Il calzare d' argento (1961 )
• Clitemnestra (1961 )

Writings

• La musica dei Greci (1914 )
• Intermezzi critici ( 1921)
• Musica e dramma (1945 )
• La musica italiana dell'Ottocento (1946 )