Adriano Lualdi

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Adriano Lualdi (born March 22, 1885 in Larino , † January 8, 1971 in Milan ) was an Italian composer , conductor , music teacher and critic .

Lualdi studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with Stanislao Falchi and one year with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello in Venice. Between 1907 and 1909 he was Maestro sostituto with Tullio Serafin and Pietro Mascagni . During this time he wrote his first compositions, including the symphonic poems L'albatro (1908) and La leggenda del vecchio marinaro (1910) and his first stage work with Le nozze di Haura (based on a libretto by Luigi Orsini , 1908).

In a debate on the pages of the Rivista musicale italiana 1917 with Giacomo Orefice and Giovanni Tebaldini , he took a stand of the most unyielding traditionalism and opposition to international currents in music. In 1921 he joined the Camerata italiana , founded in Milan by Renzo Bossi , Alceo Toni and Giulio Cesare Paribeni , which was dedicated to promoting the works of contemporary Italian composers with a traditional orientation and the rediscovery of ancient music.

In the 1920s he worked as a music critic for the magazines Ambrosiano (1922), Il Secolo (1923) and La Sera (1927) and published works on Italian and European music ( Viaggio musicale in Italia , 1927; Viaggio musicale in Europa , 1928 ) in the spirit of a provincial fascist musical culture. With Franco Alfani , Renzo Bossi and Ildebrando Pizzetti , he supported the Mostra del Novecento musicale italiano , organized in Bologna in 1927 , which was under the patronage of Mussolini and which aimed to highlight allegedly authentic values ​​of Italian music.

In 1929 Lualdi was elected as a representative of the fascist music association in the Italian parliament and held the function of a national council in the Camera dei fasci e delle corporazioni . In a series of writings ( Arte e regime , 1929; Per la musica contemporanea italiana , 1930; Per il primato spirituale di Roma , 1942) he devoted himself to fascist cultural propaganda. In 1930 he was one of the founders of the Festival internazionale di musica di Venezia . He put together the programs for the first three festivals (1930, 1932 and 1934) and directed the 1936 festival with Alfredo Casella and Mario Labroca . Works by Béla Bartók , Paul Hindemith , Darius Milhaud , Zoltán Kodály , Alexander Scriabin and Igor were presented Stravinsky and Alban Berg , and at the musica radiogenica competition in 1932, compositions by Luigi Dallapiccola and Nino Rota .

Lualdi performed as a conductor in South America in 1932, in the Soviet Union in 1933, in Germany in 1935 and in France in 1939. He wrote a number of reports on his travels and in 1940 published a textbook for conductors ( L'arte di dirigere l'orchestra ). In 1936 he was appointed director of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella , which he held until 1944. From 1936 to 1942 he was also the official music critic of the Giornale d'Italia . In 1941 he became a member of the Commission for the Autarky of Musicology, founded by Giuseppe Bottai and led by Pizzetti, which aimed to restructure music education and musicology in the spirit of fascism .

After the Second World War, Lualdi was considered compromised because of its collaboration with the fascist regime . Nevertheless, in 1947 he was able to take over the management of the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence, which he held until 1956. His last opera Euridikes diatheké was performed and broadcast on the public broadcaster RAI in 1962 . In 1969 he published a collection of his stage works under the title La bilancia di Euripide: 10 libretti d'opera . His son Luciano Lualdi became known as a singer.

Stage works

  • Le nozze di Haura (Libretto: Luigi Orsini), scene liriche in one act, 1908, 1913, UA 1939
  • Le furie di Arlecchino (Libretto: Luigi Orsini / Adriano Lualdi), intermezzo giocoso for living puppets in one act, 1915
  • Guerin Meschino (Libretto: Giovanni Cavacchioli ), medieval legend for marionettes in one act, 1922
  • La figlia del re ( The King's Daughter ; own libretto), tragedia lirica in three acts, 1922
  • Il diavolo nel campanile ( The Devil in the Campanile , own libretto after Edgar Allan Poe ), in one act, 1925
  • La Grançeola ( The Lobster , own libretto after Riccardo Bacchelli ), chamber opera in one act, 1932
  • Lunawig e la saetta (Libretto: Maner Lualdi ), leggenda mimata e danzata in one act, 1936, 1956
  • La luna dei Carabi (own libretto after Eugene O'Neill ), opera in one act, 1944
  • Euridike's diatheké. Il testamento di Euridice (own libretto), opera in four acts, 1962

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Virgilio Bernardoni:  Adriano Lualdi. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).