Arrigo Pedrollo
Arrigo Pedrollo (born December 5, 1878 in Montebello Vicentino , † December 23, 1964 in Vicenza ) was an Italian pianist and composer of tonal music.
Life
Pedrollo was first trained by his father and began studying at the Milan Conservatory at the age of thirteen , where he studied piano and composition a. a. studied with Luigi Mapelli and Gaetano Coronaro . When he graduated in 1900, Arturo Toscanini conducted his first and only symphony. He played as a pianist in various European cities and met in Warsaw on Jean Sibelius . Pedrollo composed nine operas , the first of which, Terra promessa , premiered in Cremona in 1908 , while Juana was premiered in Vicenza in 1914.
From 1920 he was a teacher at the music school in Vicenza, in 1930 he moved to the Conservatory in Milan . In the 1930s he directed the Radio Symphony Orchestra of the Ente Italiano per le Audizioni Radiofoniche in Milan and Turin for six years . Between 1938 and 1941 he was composition professor at the Milan Conservatory and then went to the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua in the same capacity . After that he was director of the Vicenza Conservatory until 1959, which later got his name.
Works (selection)
- Terra promessa (1908), libretto: Carlo Zangarini
- Juana (1914), libretto: Carlo de Carli
- Giuditta . Ballet (1916)
- L'uomo che ride (1920), libretto: Antonio Lega after Victor Hugo
- La Veglia (1920), libretto: after John Millington Synge , The Well of the Saints , translation: Carlo Linati
- Maria di Magdala (1924), libretto: Arturo Rosato
- Delitto e Castigo (1926), libretto: Giovacchino Forzano after guilt and atonement
- Primavera fiorentina (1932) Libretto: Mario Ghisalberti, based on a novella by Boccaccio
- L'Amante in trappola (1936) Libretto: Antonio Lega (broadcast on Swiss radio)
- Aziadeé (1935), ballet
- Il Giglio di Alì (1948), libretto: Ettore Romagnoli
- Concertino per oboe e orchestra (1960)
literature
- Pedrollo, Arrigo , Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , Volume 14, p. 332
- Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 279-280 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Arrigo Pedrollo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Arrigo Pedrollo at WorldCat
- Natalino Tacchetti: Arrigo Pedrollo , at editriceveneta
- Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo di Vicenza website
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pedrollo, Arrigo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 5, 1878 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montebello Vicentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1964 |
| Place of death | Vicenza |