Dionigio Canestrari

Dionigio Canestrari

Dionigio Canestrari (born April 13, 1865 in San Martino Buon Albergo ( Verona ); died April 17, 1933 in Verona) was an Italian organist and composer .

Life

Dionigio Canestrari was born to Alessandro Canestrari and Maddalena Nicolis. Even as a child he showed great interest in music, studying piano and organ, first with Maestro Capitanio, an organist from Seriate (Bergamo) and then with Achille Saglia from Verona. In July 1897 he obtained the piano diploma at the royal music high school (today music high school "Rossini") in Pesaro , the president of the examination committee was Pietro Mascagni . Canestrari stayed in contact with his teacher Mascagni for life. He dedicated z. B. his compositions "Intermezzo 1 and Intermezzo 2". In 1898 Canestrari received the master’s degree.

Then he devoted himself to piano, organ and composition lessons. For his students he wrote the "Treatise on Harmony" (Trattato d'armonia) with many practical examples. Dionigio Canestrari played in various churches in the city of Verona and the diocese, often in Soave. There he was chief organist on the new Trice organ. The organ is named after its English inventor William George Trice and has a different musical approach than the classic Italian organs. Because of this organ, the most famous Italian musicians and composers came together in 1890 to discuss the rules of church music and their renewal. Maestro Canestrari also played the Trice organs in Castelnuovo del Garda and in the Church of San Giorgio in Verona. Because of his compositions, he was considered one of the best European organ composers at the time. He received national and international awards. He corresponded with important international composers such as Alexandre Guilmant , who held the organ chair at the Paris Conservatory. His masses are still sung and played a lot these days. He died in Verona on April 17, 1933 and was buried on the Cimitero Monumentale .

Prices

• In 1922 he won first prize in a competition organized by the monthly magazine “Sainte Cécile” in Paris, specializing in ecclesiastical and liturgical music. He was the best of 1202 musicians from around the world. The jury was chaired by the organist Théodore Dubois , who was director of the Paris Conservatory for many years.
• First prize for a fair with three voices in Nantes
• First prize for a mass for two choirs in Bergamo
• Bronze medal in Palermo for a piano composition
• First prize in a competition organized by the “Revue des Maitrises” in Paris
• He composed organ and harmonium pieces and numerous festive masses.

Works

His preference was for church music, but he also composed waltzes, mazurkas, polkas, serenades and romances. The topics he dealt with, such as home, family, nature, such as B. in L'Italiana , Tenerezze materne , l'Orfanella , Inno al Lago di Garda , Inno a Castelnuovo .

• 15 Tantum ergo , edited by Capra in Turin
• 12 festive pieces and 12 small sonatas, edited by the Carrara publishing house in Bergamo
• Miserere , 1921, played in the Holy Week of 1922 in Verona Cathedral.
• Parts of Dante Alighieri's “ Divina Commedia ” .
• Hymn dedicated to Virgil

Web links

• Literature by and about Dionigio Canestrari in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Pierantonio Braggio: Dionigio Canestrari, un musicista veronese (1865–1933) Lo ricordera un concerto per pianoforte e contralto, presso la Società Letteraria di Verona

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} www.mediartenews.it: Dionigio Canestrari un musicista veronese (Italian), accessed on April 19, 2018.
2. ↑ ^{a b} www.larena.it: Omaggio a Dante in parole e note con i brani di Dionigi Canestrari (Italian), accessed on April 19, 2018.
3. ↑ ilbassoadige.it: Il Basso Adige ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Volume 38, No. 5, 2016, p. 8, (Italian), accessed on April 19, 2018 (PDF). 
4. ↑ La Bibbia e Dante nella musica da Bach a Canestrari. in: L'Arena, May 9, 2016, accessed April 9, 2018.