Ildebrando Pizzetti

Ildebrando Pizzetti (born September 20, 1880 in Parma , † February 13, 1968 in Rome ) was an Italian composer .

Ildebrando Pizzetti

Life

Pizzetti received piano lessons from his father Odoardo Pizzetti and studied composition with Giovanni Tebaldini from 1895 to 1901 . He became known for the incidental music to La Nave by Gabriele d'Annunzio , which was premiered in 1908. In that year he became a composition teacher at the Conservatory of Florence , which he directed from 1917. From 1924 he was director of the Conservatory of Milan , from 1936 he taught composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome . He was one of the most effective composition teachers of his time and, along with Alfredo Casella and Gian Francesco Malipiero, is considered the founder of modern Italian music. Pizzetti was an active supporter of Italian fascism and signed the " Manifesto degli intellettuali fascisti " in 1925 .

He composed thirteen operas , drama pieces, a symphony (1940), a piano, a harp and a cello concerto, two violin concertos, chamber music works, a requiem (1922), a De profundis (1938), choral works and songs . He also wrote several works on music theory. He wrote the music for the monumental fascist propaganda film Scipione l'Africano . In 1958 he was awarded an international Antonio Feltrinelli Prize .

Fedra (1906-1915)
Debora e Jaele (1915-1921)
Lo straniero (1922-1925)
Fra Gherardo (1925–1927)
Orseolo (1931-1935); World premiere: May 4, 1935, Teatro Communale de Firenze, Florence
L'oro (1938-1942)
Vanna Lupa (1947-1949)
Ifigenia (1950)
Cagliostro (1952)
La figlia di Jorio (1952–1954)
Assassinio nella cathedral (1955–1957)
Il calzare d'argento (1961)
Clitennestra (1961)