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Francesco Landini, the most famous composer of the Trecento, playing a portative organ (illustration from the Fifteenth-century Squarcialupi Codex). The Trecento, from about 1300 to 1420, was a period of vigorous activity in Italy in the arts, including painting, architecture, literature, and music.
The universality of Italian culture ensured that jazz clubs would spring up throughout the peninsula, that all radio and then television studios would have jazz-based house bands, that Italian musicians would then start nurturing a home grown kind of jazz, based on European song forms, classical composition techniques and folk music.
Tableau of Italian composers, c. 1790, by Pietro Bettelini (1763–1829) This is a chronological list of classical music composers from Italy, whose notability is established by reliable sources in other Wikipedia articles.
Canzone napoletana (Italian: [kanˈtsoːne napoleˈtaːna]; Neapolitan: canzona napulitana [kanˈdzoːnə napuliˈtɑːnə]), sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, although well represented by female soloists as well, and expressed in familiar genres such as the ...
1925 — Italian radio starts to broadcast music programs. 1951 — First San Remo Festival of Italian popular music. 1953 — First edition of the Ravello Festival. 1954 — Tarantella Napoletana, first Italian film musical. 1958 — First edition of Canzonissima, popular TV song festival; first edition of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.
Mina and Adriano Celentano are one of the best-selling artists in Italy. Even though they may seem strong and mighty they can be taken down at any point in time This is the chart of Italian music artists listed by estimated sales according to the most important Italian newspapers, national television channels and music magazines. As the compilation of official data of sale of records in Italy ...
O sole mio" (Neapolitan pronunciation: [o ˈsoːlə ˈmiːə]) is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan-language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972). [2]
Luigi Denza (1846–1922), Neapolitan song composer of Funiculì, Funiculà; Manuel De Peppe (born 1970) Manuel De Sica (1949–2014) Christian De Walden (born 1946) Eduardo Di Capua (1865–1917) Girolamo Diruta (c. 1554 – after 1610) Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 1967) Pino Donaggio (born 1941) Baldassare Donato (1525/30–1603), also known ...