Adriano Lualdi

Adriano Lualdi studied at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia. Training under Stanislao Falchi is recorded. The recorded working language is Italian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are Milan. Positions recorded include member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Kingdom of Italy and national councillor to the Chamber of Fasci and Corporations.

Lualdi was one of those artists in Italy whose reputation was subsequently diminished because of his early and continued avid support of Benito Mussolini and Italian fascism. He was musically precocious and was sent to Rome where he studied composition with Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari at the Santa Cecilia conservatory. As a young musician, he conducted at La Fenice in Venice, the San Carlo Theater in Naples, as well as heading the conservatories in Florence and Naples. He was a frequent contributor to musical journals and debates and collaborated with Mascagni and Toscanini, who directed Lualdi's composition Il diavolo nel campanile, based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Devil in the Belfry." Lualdi organized the “900 musicale italiano” in 1927 in Milan, dedicated to music of the 20th century in Italy, as well as the first International Festival of Music in Venice in 1930, an adjunct of the Venice Biennale. In 1929 he was elected to the Italian parliament. He then directed the Naples conservatory for eight years and, later, the Cherubini conservatory in Florence.

• Illustration — Una vasta spianata. In fondo le mura di Kampylia, set design for La figlia del Re act 1 (1921). • La leggenda del vecchio marinaio (1910)

• La figlia del re (1922) • Le nozze di Haura (1922) • Il diavolo nel campanile (1925) • L’Albatro (1932) • Samnium

• La rosa di Saaron, for soprano, tenor, and orchestra • Orchestra suites, “Adriatica” (1932), “Africa” (1936) • String Quartet in E major • Sonata for Violin and Piano