Franco Donatoni

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Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.

Biography

Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy. Later he studied at the Milan Conservatory and Bologna Conservatory.

He taught composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Milan Conservatory, and several other Academies and summer courses such as Darmstädter Ferienkurse and Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.^{[citation needed]}

His compositions have been conducted by Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Bruno Maderna, Salvatore Accardo, Alain Meunier and many others.^{[citation needed]}

At least three generations of composers studied with Donatoni. Among his Italian pupils were Sandro Gorli, Matteo D'Amico, Roberto Carnevale, Giulio Castagnoli, Ivan Fedele, Luigi Manfrin, Giorgio Magnanensi, Luca Mosca, Riccardo Piacentini, Fausto Romitelli, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Alessandro Solbiati, Piero Niro, Giovanni Verrando, and among his foreign pupils Michael Dellaira, Pascal Dusapin, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Juan Trigos.

Donatoni died in Milan in 2000, wishing to work in his second book of his monumental "Arte della Fuga”, for large orchestra, based on the original work of Johann Sebastian Bach.

Works

Further information: List of compositions by Franco Donatoni

References

External links

Biography by David Wright
Obituary in the Musical Times
Recording of "Arpège", for ensemble.
A reminiscence of Donatoni by Jeffrey Levine

Excerpts from sound archives of Donatoni's works.
(French) A biography of Franco Donatoni, from IRCAM's website.

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Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 111440307 LCCN: n80159295 ISNI: 0000 0001 0935 679X GND: 12110933X BNF: cb13511370w

Persondata
Name	Donatoni, Franco
Alternative names
Short description	Italian composer
Date of birth	9 June 1927
Place of birth	Verona, Italy
Date of death	17 August 2000
Place of death	Milan, Italy

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