Franco Abbiati

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Franco Abbiati (born September 14, 1898 in Verdello , † January 22, 1981 in Bergamo ) was an Italian musicologist .

Abbiati studied composition at the Turin Music Academy and graduated with a diploma in 1929. He then studied musicology in Cesena . His work as a music critic initially began from 1928 to 1936 with Secolo Sera . Then he worked for 36 years as a music critic of the Corriere della Sera until 1973 and was the author of one of the most important books on Giuseppe Verdi , but also wrote an Italian biography on Arnold Schoenberg . He was the founder and from 1949 to 1963 editor of the monthly journal La Scala.

The Premio Franco Abbiati della Critica Musicale Italiana prize is named after him.

Books (selection)

  • Scritti inediti di Gaetano Cesari (1937)
  • Storia della musica (5 volumi, 1939–1946)
  • La vita e le opere di Giuseppe Verdi (4 volumi, 1959)
  • Storia della musica , Collezione Maggiore Garzanti (2ª edizione aggiornata, 4 volumi, 1974)
  • Biografia di Schoenberg

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Abbiati, Franco. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 1 (first edition: 1882).

Web links

Carolyn Gianturco:  Abbiati, Franco. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carolyn Gianturco: Abbiati, Franco. In: Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press, 2001, accessed July 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ ROBERTO ABBADO WINS FRANCO ABBIATI CONDUCTING PRIZE ( Memento from June 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Abbiati, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Verdello
DATE OF DEATH January 22, 1981
Place of death Bergamo