Disma Fumagalli

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Disma Fumagalli (born September 8, 1826 in Inzago near Milan, † March 9, 1893 in Milan ) was an Italian composer , pianist and music teacher of the 19th century.

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Disma Fumagalli was the brother of the composers Carlo , Polibio , Adolfo and Luca Fumagalli . Disma had his first piano studies with Giuseppe Medaglia in his hometown Inzago and continued them at the Milan Conservatory with Antonio Angeleri (1801-1889), where he also studied composition. In the 1850s he worked as a pianist in several concerts given by his brother Adolfo in Milan. In 1853 he performed the piano concerto by Friedrich Kalkbrenner (1785–1849) in Vimercate ; he also conducted a memorial concert in 1856 for his brother Adolfo, who had died on May 3 of that year. In 1857 he became professor of piano playing at the Milan Conservatory, a position he held until his death. His students included Albino Gorno and Ida Bosisio, for example. He also became an honorary professor at the Congregazione Ponteficia and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome , and also a member of the Società Filarmonica in Naples . His daughter Carla Fumagalli (1858–1949) studied with him and became a well-known concert pianist. In 1877, Disma dedicated a collection of piano works to the Italian King Vittorio Emanuele II . In 1870 and 1880 he was a member of the commission at the composition competition of the Società del quartetto in Milan and in 1881 he was one of the organizers of the Congress of Italian Musicians.

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Disma made 334 compositions, all for piano; some of it is based on opera melodies . They follow the style of his younger brother Adolfo, although they do not show his talent, but require a masterful piano technique in the sense of the stile brilliant . They represent a revival of classical Italian instrumental music. His works include a number of vocal scores , Nocturnes , Caprices , Divertimentos , Scherzo and fantasies on operatic themes, but especially etudes and piano technical study works, including the Preparazione alla Scuola della velocità op. 209 di Carl Czerny: 12 nuovi studi diteggiati (Milan, without year), thus a "preparation in the style of the school of fluency op. 209 by Carl Czerny : 12 new finger exercise studies". Particularly noteworthy are La rassegnazione op. 22 ("Die Resignation", Milan without year), the Concerto A flat major op. 83 for piano and string orchestra (Milan 1856) and Canto della filatrice op. Milan without year), his last composition.

Works (selection)

(all compositions for piano, with place and year of publication)

  • Original works
    • Grande concerto for piano and string quartet op.83 (Milan 1855)
    • Primo tempo di concerto in C major for piano and orchestra op.108 (Milan 1858)
    • Primo tempo di concerto for piano and string quartet ad libitum op. 168 (Milan 1864), dedicated to Vittorio Emanuele II
    • Canon e due fughe op.284 (Milan around 1878)
    • Etudes and didactic works, including La scuola del dilettante , 12 studi op.331 (Milan 1891)
    • Preparazione alla scuola della velocità op.209 di Czerny op.331 (Milan 1892)
    • Character pieces and dances
  • Edits

Literature (selection)

  • François-Joseph Fétis: Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique , Paris 1860–1865, supplement, published by Arthur Pougin, Paris 1878, p. 352 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive )
  • LA Villanis: L'arte del pianoforte in Italia (da Clementi a Sgambati) , Turin 1907, pp. 212-217
  • S. Martinotti: Poetiche e presenze nel pianismo italiano dell'Ottocento , in: La nuova musicologia Italiana (= Quaderni della Rassegna musicale. Volume 3), Einaudi, Turin 1965, OCLC 728427805 , pp. 181–194
  • S. Martinotti: Ottocento strumentale italiano , Forni, Bologna 1972
  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaen World of Music , Volume 2, Propylaen, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07832-3 , p. 360
  • S. Martinotti (Ed.): La musica a Milano, in Lombardia e oltre (= La città e lo spettacolo Vol. 5 and 8), 2 volumes, Vita e Pensiero, Milan 1996 and 2000
  • Bianca Maria Antolini:  Fumagalli. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 50:  Francesco I Sforza-Gabbi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1998.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Francesca Bascialli: Fumagalli, Disma , in: Ludwig Finscher (Ed.), The Music in Past and Present , Second Edition, Personal Part, Volume 7 (Fra – Gre), Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618- 1117-9 , columns 266-267
  2. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians , edited by Stanley Sadie, 2nd Edition, Volume 9, McMillan Publishers, London 2001, ISBN 0-333-60800-3
personal data
SURNAME Fumagalli, Disma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer, pianist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH September 8, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Inzago
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1893
Place of death Milan