Alessandro Longo
Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist.
Alessandro Longo
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- Name
- Alessandro Longo
- Born
- 31 December 1864
- Birthplace
- Amantea
- Died
- 3 November 1945
- Occupation
- composer and musicologist
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy.
- Teachers
- Beniamino Cesi and Paolo Serrao.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Alessandro Longo (31 December 1864 – 3 November 1945) was an Italian composer and musicologist.
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• Name — Alessandro Longo • Born — 31 December 1864 • Birthplace — Amantea • Died — 3 November 1945 • Occupation — composer and musicologist
Early life
Early life
Longo was born in Amantea. After studying at the Naples Conservatory under Beniamino Cesi (and composition under Paolo Serrao), he began teaching piano at his alma mater in 1887, deputizing for Cesi as pianoforte professor, and succeeded him in 1897. One of Longo's earliest students was Franco Alfano.
Career
Career
As a pianist, Longo often played in chamber ensemble with the Ferni Quartet, and with the Quartetto Napoletano (with Cantani, Parmiciano, Scarano and Viterbini). He founded various musical institutions in Naples, and gained a high reputation as a concert pianist. In 1914 he began editing the review L'Arte Pianistica. He became Director of the Naples Conservatory in 1944, and died in Naples the following year, aged 80.
Family life
Family life
His son, Achille Longo (1900–1954), was also a composer.
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
His recorded language was Italian. He was the child of Achille Longo senior. One child is recorded: Achille Longo.
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1945
Alessandro Longo died at Naples.
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Legacy
Today, Longo is mainly remembered for compiling an almost comprehensive catalogue of the keyboard works of Domenico Scarlatti. For many years, Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas were conventionally identified by their Longo numbers, but these were later superseded by those found in Ralph Kirkpatrick's catalogue. Longo's Catalogue originated in his landmark full publication of the works of Scarlatti in 11 volumes and implied particular groupings of the sonatas, the chronology of which was later completely revised and differently grouped in Kirkpatrick's 1953 study of the composer. Longo also edited works by Domenico Gallo. His compositions include, among others, two works for piano four-hands, a serenade and a suite; suites for piano with bassoon with oboe, with violin, flute and with clarinet.
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- 1.Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, voce "Longo" (famiglia Longo) di A. Pugliese.
- 2.Alberto Basso (a cura di), Dizionario enciclopedico universale della musica e dei musicisti, Torino, 1988, Utet, Le biografie: vol. IV, voce "Longo" (famiglia).
- 3.Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani cit.
- 4.L'arte pianistica, n. 2, 2 febbraio 1920.
- 5.Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, voce "Longo" cit.
- 6.A. Della Corte e G.M. Gatti, Dizionario di musica, Paravia, 1956, p. 356.
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He trained under Beniamino Cesi and Paolo Serrao. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
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