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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 ...
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.
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.
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 ...
Respighi's Concerto gregoriano was used in a one-act ballet depicting the life of Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first person born in the USA to become a Saint in the Catholic Church. [6] The ballet was created in 2025 to honor the 50th anniversary of her canonization and was entitled "Elizabeth" with choreography by Roman Mykyta and first performed ...
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]
3 acts (quadri) Claudio Guastalla: 16 March 1932: New York City, Carnegie Hall: New York première was in concert form. Scenic première:Venice, Teatro Goldoni, 10 August 1932 P 175: 1933: La fiamma: melodramma: 3 acts: Claudio Guastalla: 23 January 1934: Rome, Teatro dell’Opera: After Hans Wiers-Jenssen's The Witch: P 176: 1933: La bella ...