Franco Ferrara

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Franco Ferrara (front left)

Franco Ferrara (born July 4, 1911 in Palermo , † September 6, 1985 in Florence ) was an Italian violinist , conductor and composer as well as an important conducting teacher.

Life

Ferrara lived in Bologna from 1924, where he attended the Liceo Musicale Giovanni Battista Martini. He studied violin, piano, organ and composition with Angelo Consolini , Filippo Ivaldi , Antonio Belletti and Cesare Nordio at the Bologna and Palermo Conservatories. In 1925 he became a violinist at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna . He also performed as a pianist and conducted his own compositions.

From 1931 to 1933 he was a member of the Orchestra dell'Augusteo in Rome and then to 1940 concertmaster of the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino , where he under conductors like Vittorio Gui , Antonio Guarnieri , Victor de Sabata , Bruno Walter , Willem Mengelberg and Erich Kleiber worked .

In 1938 Ferrara made her debut as a conductor with a concert at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze . His reputation as a conductor was strengthened by a concert he gave in Rome in 1939 with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia . He directed the orchestra until 1945. He also gave concerts in Hungary, Romania and Germany, a. a. with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Bamberg Symphony .

After falling from the podium for the first time in 1940 at the Teatro Adriano , he retired from concert activities in 1948 for health reasons. He continued to conduct radio recordings such as the opera I due timidi by Nino Rota (nominated for the Prix ​​Italia 1951). At the opening of the 2nd channel of RAI he conducted the orchestra and the choir of RAI di Roma . As a film composer he worked with Federico Fellini , Michelangelo Antonioni and Luchino Visconti .

From 1947 until his retirement in 1981, Ferrarra taught orchestral conducting and score reading at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He also gave conducting courses in Perugia from 1958 (at the invitation of Valentino Bucchi ), from 1959 in Hilversum, from 1961 in Venice and from 1966 in Siena. He has taught many well-known conductors, including Edo de Waart , Emil Tschakarow , Gabriel Chmura , Zoltán Peskó , Riccardo Chailly , Aldo Ceccato , Gaetano Delogu , Gabriele Ferro , Hubert Soudant , Andrew Davis and Richard Vardigans .

In 1964, 1967 and 1971 he was a juror at the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition in New York.

Film music

  • 1953: The Sack of Rome (Il Sacco di Roma)
  • 1954: Uprising in the island paradise (La principessa delle Canarie)
  • 1957: Los jueves, milagro
  • 1960: Revak, the slave of Carthage (The Barbarians)
  • 1961: Drakut il vendicatore
  • 1963: The Leopard , collaboration as conductor and musical director

literature

  • Alberto Fassone: Ferrara, Franco . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 148–149.
  • Ferrara, Franco . In: John L. Holmes: Conductors on Record. Greenwood Press, Westport 1982, ISBN 0-575-02781-9 , p. 187.
  • Ferrara, Franco . In: Stefan Jaeger (Ed.): The Atlantis Book of Conductors. An encyclopedia . Atlantis, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3-254-00106-0 , p. 137.
  • Ferrara, Franco . In: Alain Pâris: Classical Music in the 20th Century . 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 243.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alberto Fassone: Ferrara, Franco . In: Julian Caskel, Hartmut Hein (Hrsg.): Handbuch Dirigenten. 250 portraits . Bärenreiter, Kassel 2015, ISBN 978-3-7618-2174-9 , pp. 148f.
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2013 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. About Richard Vardigans (master student of Ferrara)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.talking-about-opera.de
personal data
SURNAME Ferrara, Franco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Palermo
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1985
Place of death Florence