Dante Fiorillo
Dante Fiorillo (born July 4, 1905 in New York City , † October 1995 ) was an American composer.
Fiorillo was self-taught music, but took cello lessons at Greenwich House Music School for some time . With the mediation of Thomas Whitney Surette and Henry Allan Moe , he became composer in residence at Black Mountain College in 1935 . Four suites were created here: The Adamic Suite , The Black Mountain Suite , The Children's Suite and The Surette Suite , and another suite, The John Andrew Rice Suite , he mentioned in his correspondence with the pianist Allan Sly .
Sly played his Concertino for Piano and Strings in Toronto in 1937 with the Promenade Symphony Orchestra under Reginald Stewart ; the performance was repeated three times. In 1938 Ralph Kirkpatrick played his Concerto for Harpsichord and Strings . Between 1935 and 1938 he received four Guggenheim grants in a row.
After it turned out that his compositions contained plagiarisms from manuscripts by German composers who had sent them to him for publication in the USA, he had to leave Black Mountain College in 1938. He went back to New York, where he received a Pulitzer Traveler Fellowship in Music in 1939 for his 8th Symphony . In the 1950s, he ran a music publisher for a short time, the Educational Publishing Institute Corporation (EPIC). Nothing is known about his further life.
literature
- Yvar Mikhashoff, Jonas Westover: Fiorillo, Dante. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- Mary Emma Harris The arts at Black Mountain College MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 9780262582124 , pp. 32-25
- Vincent Katz, Martin Brody Black Mountain College: experiment in art MIT Press, 2003, ISBN 9780262112796 , p. 243
- The Free Library - Harpsichord and Clavichord Music of the Twentieth Century
Remarks
- ↑ Various information about the year of death circulate in the sources. Grove Music Online says "after 1950" and Neil Butterworth says "about 1970". According to Re-Composing , Dante Fiorillo died in October 1995 - a date that friends and relatives seem to have confirmed.
Individual evidence
- ^ Yvar Mikhashoff, Jonas Westover: Fiorillo, Dante. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
- ^ Neil Butterworth: The American Symphony . Ashgate, Aldershot 1998, ISBN 1-85928-459-0 , p. 224
- ↑ Peter Nelson-King: The Illusory Trail of Dante Fiorillo. , on: Re-Composing from September 26, 2013
- ^ Fiorillos Guggenheim Scholarships
- ^ John Lear: Escaped Slums With Music That Won Pulitzer Prize. In: Green Sheet Journal , Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 26, 1939
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fiorillo, Dante |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1995 |