Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (born April 3, 1895 in Florence , † March 16, 1968 in Beverly Hills ) was an Italian composer and pianist who emigrated to the United States in 1939 .

Life

Castelnuovo-Tedesco studied from 1909 at the Conservatory of Florence with Ildebrando Pizzetti ( composition ) and Edgardo del Valle De Paz ( piano ). Soon a mature musician, he was already one of the most sought-after exponents of Italy's musica nuova during his student days . In 1918 he received the Diploma di Composizione of the Liceo Musicale di Bologna .

At the International Festival in Venice in 1932 he met the Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia , who since his debut in Paris was famous 1924th A warm friendship developed between the two, which was decisive for the many subsequent compositions for guitar by Castelnuovo-Tedesco.

Because of the fascist racial legislation, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, who was of Jewish origin, emigrated to the USA in 1939 and found work at the MGM film studios , where he wrote more than two hundred film scores. From 1946 he taught composition at the Los Angeles Conservatory .

In addition to six operas and three ballets , he composed ten theatrical overtures, two symphonic poems , three violin, three guitar and two piano concertos, a cello, an oboe and a harp concert, a poem and symphonic variations for violin and orchestra, a serenade for Guitar and chamber orchestra, chamber music works, piano pieces, six oratorios , several cantatas , choral works, songs and some works for organ.

His works for solo guitar are part of the standard repertoire of this instrument, for example the guitar quintet op. 143 (as well as his preludes and studies). The organ works testify to a clever use of the entire sound palette of the instrument and the skilful use of novel registrations and present the interpreter with great virtuoso challenges. His fantasies of the American period in particular are considered obsessive developments in what was then the latest twelve-tone technique.

Based on literary models, Castelnuovo-Tedosco's compositions Platero y yo ( op.190 , for a narrator and guitar, 28 pieces for the book of the same name by Juan Ramón Jiménez ) from 1960 and 24 Caprichos de Goya (op.195, for solo guitar, interpreting part of the Caprichos by Francisco de Goya musically) from 1961. His composition Les Guitares bien tempérées was performed for the first time by the guitar duo Ida Presti / Alexandre Lagoya .

In 1948 the film music composer John Williams studied with Tedesco.

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • William Wallace McMullen: Soloistic English Horn Literature from 1736-1984 . Pendragon Press, 1994 ISBN 0-918728-78-9 .
  • Roland von Weber: Castelnuovo-Tedesco . In: The Book of Modern Composers . New York 1956.
  • David Ewen (Ed.): American Composers today . New York 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Wallace McMullen, 1994, p. 55
  2. ↑ u. a. The Flood (Noah's Ark) for speaker, choir and orchestra, his contribution to the Genesis Suite (1945)
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    Introduction, Aria and Fugue, op. 159 ; Sacred Service for the Sabbath Eve, op. 122 ; Prelude on the name of Frederick Tulan, op.170, no.49 ; Choral Prelude on the name of Albert Schweitzer op. 170 no.18 ; Fugue on the name of Albert Schweitzer, op.170 , no.18b ; Prayers my Grandfather Wrote .
  4. ↑ See Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Appunti. Preludi e studi per chitarra. 4 volumes. Edizioni Suvini Terboni, Milan.
  5. ↑ See Angelo Gilardino (Ed.): Mario Catelnuovo-Tedesco, 24 Caprichos de Goya para la guitarre op. 195. Edizioni musicali Bèrben. Ancona / Milan 1970 (= Collezione di musiche per chitarra, diretta da Angelo Gilardino ). Angelo Gilardino's edition was created from the summer of 1967 to 1970 at the request of “Maestro Castelnuovo-Tedesco”.
  6. ↑ Dirk Möller: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedescos 24 Caprichos de Goya. An Introduction To: Guitar & Lute. Volume 3, Issue 1, 1981, pp. 42-46, here: p. 42.
  7. ^ Hannes Fricke: Myth guitar: history, interpreters, great hours. Reclam, Stuttgart 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-020279-1 , p. 205.
personal data
SURNAME Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1968
Place of death Beverly Hills