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Fountains of Rome (Italian: Fontane di Roma), P 106, is a tone poem in four movements completed in 1916 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. It is the first of his three tone poems about Rome, preceding Pines of Rome (1924) and Roman Festivals (1928).
Respighi soon entered a low period, for he was deeply saddened by the death of his mother from pneumonia in March 1916. Upon receiving the news of her illness his departure for Bologna was delayed; she died by the time he had arrived. Respighi returned to Rome and resumed work for a brief period until he stopped and went back to Bologna.
Respighi completed I Pini di Roma in the summer of 1924, after he had "conceived, started and restarted" work on the piece in the course of several years. Having relocated from his hometown of Bologna to Rome in 1913, Respighi said that the city's "marvellous fountains" and "umbrella-like pines that appear in every part of the horizon" were two characteristics that "[have] spoken to my ...
Roman Festivals (Italian: Feste Romane), P 157 is a tone poem in four movements for orchestra completed in 1928 by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi. [1] It is the last of his three tone poems about Rome, following Fountains of Rome (1916) and Pines of Rome (1924), which he referred to as a triptych. [2]
The Trevi Fountain is depicted in the third movement, "The Trevi Fountain at Noon", of Ottorino Respighi's 1916 symphonic poem Fountains of Rome. [43] The fountain has appeared in several films, including Roman Holiday (1953); [44] Three Coins in the Fountain (1954); Federico Fellini's classic, La Dolce Vita (1960); [45] Sabrina Goes to Rome ...
The Fountain of Valle Giulia is a fountain in the Valle Giulia area of Rome. It was immortalised in the symphonic poem Fontane di Roma by Ottorino Respighi . This article about an Italian building or structure is a stub .
Rome, Teatro dell’Opera: After Hans Wiers-Jenssen's The Witch: P 176: 1933: La bella dormente nel bosco: fiaba musicale: 3 acts: Gian Bistolfi: 9 April 1934: Turin, Teatro di Torino: Standard opera version. See P 134 for marionette version. After Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty: P 180: 1935: Lucrezia: opera: 1 act (3 movements) Claudio ...
One of the first new fountains to be built in Rome during the Renaissance was the Fountain in Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere (1499), which was placed on the site of an earlier Roman fountain. Its design, based on an earlier Roman model, with a circular vasque on a pedestal pouring water into a basin below, became the model for many other ...