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[3] [4] Massine described how, in Rome for a ballet season, Respighi brought the score of Rossini's Péchés de vieillesse to Diaghilev. The impresario played them to Massine and Respighi. Toulouse-Lautrec was an influence on the period setting and style of La Boutique fantasque, and Massine envisaged the principal character "quite Lautrec-like ...
Hess compares the work with Chopin's Nocturne in D-flat major, Op. 27, No. 2, emphasizing the influence of the left hand ostinato which in Respighi's work is an arpeggio split between both hands. The opening unfolds with this pattern in double thirds, similar to the music of Claude Debussy with its chord progression: E-flat minor – G-flat ...
This is a complete list of the compositions by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936). This list can be sorted by catalogue number (P), year composed, title, and genre. Catalog numbers were attributed by Potito Pedarra [ it ] , an Italian musicologist who dedicated most of his activity to the study of the works of Respighi.
Ancient Airs and Dances (Italian: Antiche arie e danze) is a set of three orchestral suites by Italian composer Ottorino Respighi, freely transcribed from original pieces for lute. In addition to being a renowned composer and conductor, Respighi was also a notable musicologist .
The concerto is written in three movements. It is scored for piano solo, 2 flutes, piccolo, 2 oboes, cor anglais, 2 clarinets (in B ♭ and A), 4 horns (in F), 2 trumpets (in B ♭), 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, harp and strings. Average performance of the work lasts for about 39 minutes. [4]
Lucrezia is an opera in one act and three tableaux by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla, after Livy and William Shakespeare's The Rape of Lucrece, itself based heavily on Ovid's Fasti. Respighi died before finishing the work, which was therefore completed by his wife, Elsa Respighi, and by one of his pupils, Ennio Porrino.
The fairy-tale world of Hauptmann's play inspired Respighi to create his most lavishly and imaginatively orchestrated operatic score, which frequently reminds the listener of his famous symphonic poems. Since the opera's anti-hero Enrico is a bell maker, Respighi fills the music with many chiming and ringing effects.
The singers were amateurs selected in the world of the Bolognese students; [2] among them, Rosina Giovannoni Zacchi as Lauretta and Ernesto Lavarello as Leonzio. [3] Following the will of the composer, there was a single performance, which obtained a good success. [2] Re Enzo is organized as an operetta, with a succession of musical pieces and ...