Michele Esposito (musician)

Michele Esposito (born September 25, 1855 in Castellmare near Naples , Italy ; died 1929 in Florence ) was an Italian pianist , conductor and composer who lived in Dublin , Ireland for a long time .

life and work

At the age of ten he entered the Naples Conservatory, where he studied piano with Beniamino Cesi (1845–1907) and composition with Paolo Serrao (1830–1907) for eight years . After a stay in Paris since 1879, he moved to Dublin in 1882, where he was appointed piano professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music . He often took part in chamber performances and founded the Dublin Orchestral Society in 1899, an orchestral society which he led until it was dissolved in 1914. In 1917 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Dublin . In the anthology of old and new music for piano ( Ricordi ) edited by Gino Tagliapietra , his ballad , Op. 59, no. 2, recording.

Works (selection)

(Tagliapietra, VIII)

Dirdre , cantata, awarded the Feis Ceoil Prize (1897)
Sonata for cello and piano
two string quartets
A symphonic poem
Irish rhapsodies
Fantasy for 2 pianos
three operas
The Postbag , operetta
Songs
Piano works
Otello: Overture
Orchestral works

literature

Gino Tagliapietra (Ed.): Anthology of old and new music for piano. German text translated and revised by Willi Apel . Volume seventeenth, Ricordi, Milan 1934.
Carla Di Lena: Michele Esposito. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43: Enzo – Fabrizi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993.

Web links

References and footnotes

↑ 3 Ballades, Op.59 (Esposito, Michele) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project
↑ Tagliapietra, p. 107 ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Esposito, Michele
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian pianist, conductor and composer
DATE OF BIRTH	September 25, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH	Castellmare near Naples , Italy
DATE OF DEATH	1929
Place of death	Florence

[1] 3 Ballades, Op.59 (Esposito, Michele) : Sheet music and audio files in the International Music Score Library Project

[2] Tagliapietra, p. 107 ff.