OTTORINO RESPIGHI Italian Composer (1879-1936) Ottorino Respighi free midi download

OTTORINO RESPIGHI
9^th July 1879 --- 18^th April 1936

Ottorino Respighi(born 1879, Bologna, Italy--died 1936, Rome, Italy), Italian composer who introduced Russian orchestral colour
and some of the violence of Richard Strauss's harmonic techniques into Italian music. He studied at the Liceo of Bologna and later
with Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, where he was first violist in the Opera Orchestra. From his foreign masters Respighi had
acquired a command of orchestral colour and an interest in orchestral composition.

A piano concerto by Respighi was performed at Bologna in 1902, a "notturno" for orchestra was played at a concert in the famous
Metropolitan Opera House that year. His wrote a comic opera Re Enzo and the opera Semirama brought him recognition and an
appointment in 1913 to the Sta. Cecilia Academy in Rome as professor of composition. He became director of the conservatory in
1924 but resigned in 1926.

Respighi was drawn to the sensual, decadent climate of the Rome depicted by the poet D'Annunzio, and in his celebrated suites
Pines of Rome and Fountains of Rome especially he sought to convey the subtlety and colour of the poet's imagination. Other
suites include Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows, 1927) Gli ucelli (The Birds, 1927), Feste Romane (Roman Festival, 1929) and
Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych, 1927, for chamber orchestra).

Respighi was also drawn to old Italian music, which he arranged two sets of Antique Dances and Arias (transcribed for orchestra
from lute pieces). One of his most popular scores was his arrangement of pieces by Rossini, La Boutique fantasque, produced by
Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in London (1919). A later arrangement of Rossini piano pieces, Rossiniana (1925) also became a ballet.

As a composer of opera, Respighi had less success outside his own country. His best known works for the theatre were Belfagor a
comic opera produced at Milan in 1923, and La fiamma (Rome, 1934), which effectively transfers the gloomy Norwegian tragedy
of H. Wiers Jenssen (known to English speaking audiences in John Masefield's version as The Witch) to Byzantine Ravenna. In a
different, more subdued vein are the "mystery," Maria Egiziaca (1932), and his posthumous Lucrezia (completed by his wife, Elsa
1937), the latter showing Respighi's interest in the dramatic recitative of Claudio Monteverdi, of whose Orfeo he made a free
transcription for La Scala, Milan, in 1935.

Respighi's wife and pupil, Elsa Olivieri-Sangiacomo Respighi (1894-1996), a famous singer and a composer of operas, choral and
symphonic works, and songs.
Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

And now for the Music

Thanks to Satoshi Orisaka for the music below.
New (4139)"Siciliana". Sequenced by Satoshi Orisaka.

New (4137)"Pines of Rome, Mov.1". Sequencer Unknown.

New (4138)"Pines of Rome, Mov.2". Sequencer Unknown.

Thanks to Philip Decloux for the music below, Email (declouxp @ hotmail.com)
"The Flight Into Egypt from Church Windows Four Symphonic Impressions No.1". Sequenced by Philip Decloux.

"St. Michael Archangel from Church Windows Four Symphonic Impressions No.2". Sequenced by Philip Decloux.

"Fontane di Roma, All four movements in the same file". Sequenced by Philip Decloux.

Thanks to Ramon Pajares Box for music below.
(2801)"Early Dances and Airs for lute 1. (Simone Molinaro, Balletto detto, Il Conte Orlando)". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box
(2802)"Early Dances and Airs for lute 2. (Taken from Vincenzo Galilei)". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box
(2803)"Early Dances and Airs for lute 3. (From Anonymous Villanella end 16th c)". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box
(2770)"Early Dances and Airs for lute 4. (From Anonymous Passo mezzo e Mascherada end 16th c.)". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box
(255)"Antiche Danze Arie Suite No.1,(Info by Ramon Pajares Box)". Sequenced by M. Lundgren
Thanks to Gary Goldberg for the music below. Email (garyg@ix.netcom.com)
(1586)"Roman Festivals in four parts (Circus Maximus, Jubilee, October Festival, and Epiphany)". Sequenced by Gary Goldberg

(840)"Antiche Danze Arie, Suite No.2,(Info by Demian Battaglia)". Sequencer unknown
(839)"Antiche Danze Arie, No.3". Sequencer unknown
(838)"First movement (Circuses) from Feste Romane,(Info by Edward Gold)". Sequencer unknown

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