Valentino Bucchi

Valentino Bucchi ( born November 29, 1916 in Florence, † May 9, 1976 in Rome) was an Italian composer, music critic and educator.

Life

The son of a horn player and a violinist graduated after studying philosophy at the University of Florence a musical education at the Liceo Musicale Cherubini at Vito Frazzi and Luigi Dallapiccola.

Since 1938 he was music critic for the magazine La Nazione in Florence. 1939 his one-act opera Giuoco del Barone was first performed, which took the attention of the music critic Bruno Barilli and in 1956 won the Prix Italia. After 1941 only isolated music reviews have appeared from him. Between 1945 and 1947 he wrote reviews for La Nazione del Popolo and Mattino dell'Italia Centrale.

Since 1945 Bucchi taught at the conservatories of Florence and Venice. From 1957 to 1974 he headed the Conservatory of Perugia, then up to his death that of Florence. In addition, he acted as the head of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana (1958-1960), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (1963-1967) and the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

After the death of the Associazione Musicale Valentino Bucchi Bucchis was founded in 1977 (since 1990 Fondazione Valentino Bucchi ), the Premio Valentino Bucchi the awards to young musicians and composers year.

Works

  • Quattro liriche for voice and piano (after Paul Verlaine, Aldo Palazzeschi ), 1935-40
  • Sonatina for piano, 1938
  • Il giuoco del barone, opera in one act ( libretto by Alessandro Parronchi ), UA: Florence 1939
  • Cinque Madrigali La dolce pena for Voice and nine instruments, 1946
  • Il pianto delle creature, cantata for voice and orchestra, first performed in Florence with Feodora Barbieri 1947
  • Cori della pieta morta for mixed choir and orchestra ( text: Franco Fortini ), 1949-50
  • Film Music Il cielo è rosso, 1950
  • La ballata del Silenzio for orchestra, 1951
  • Li gieus de Robin et de Marion, opera in one act ( Libretto: Mario and Mario Mattolini Pezzari by Adam de la Halle ), UA: RAI Rome, 1953
  • Soundtrack to Febbre di vivere, Premio Nastro d' Argento 1953
  • Il contrabbasso, grotesque ( libretto: Mario and Mario Mattolini Pezzati by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov ), UA: Florence 1954
  • Racconto Siciliano, ballet for two piano on an idea by Luchino Visconti, 1955
  • String Quartet, Quartetto Italiano by the UA in New York in 1957
  • Concerto Lirico for Violin and String Orchestra, 1957
  • Mirandolina Ballet, the Teatro dell'Opera UA, Rome, choreographed by Aurel von Milloss, 1957
  • Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in rondò, UA with Vera Franceschi 1957
  • Una notte in paradiso, Cantafavola for soloists, chorus and speaker ( libretto by Luigi Bazzoni by Italo Calvino ), UA: Florence 1960
  • Soundtrack to Banditi a Orgosolo, 1961
  • Fantasia for String Orchestra, 1963
  • Grottesco Concerto for Double Bass and Strings, 1967
  • Il coccodrillo, opera ( by Fyodor Dostoevsky ), UA: Teatro Comunale Florence 1970
  • Ison for solo cello, UA by Amedeo Baldovino 1971
  • Un incipit for Strings, 1972
  • Colloquio corale for speaker, soprano, choir and orchestra, dedicated to the memory of Aldo Capitini, 1972
  • Il tumulto dei Ciompi, 1972
  • Concerto di Concerti for Strings, 1974
  • Soliloquios, monodrama for solo viola, 1976
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