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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).
Ottorino Respighi (/ r ɛ ˈ s p iː ɡ i / reh-SPEE-ghee, [1] US also / r ə ˈ-/ rə-; [2] Italian: [ottoˈriːno reˈspiːɡi]; 9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century.
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]
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.
A candle with a portrait of Pope Francis is seen in front of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic, in Rome, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, where Pope Francis has been hospitalised to undergo some necessary ...
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 ...
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