Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. • Illustration — Franco Donatoni
Franco Donatoni
- Born
- 1927. · Verona.
- Died
- 2000. · Milan.
- Nationality
- Italy and Kingdom of Italy.
- Occupation
- composer and teacher.
- Fields
- music.
- Education
- Milan Conservatory, Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
- Teachers
- Alberta d'Angeli Cattini and Cesare Cattini.
- Languages
- Italian.
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Franco Donatoni studied at Milan Conservatory, Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Training under Alberta d'Angeli Cattini and Cesare Cattini is recorded. Athanasia Tzanou, Luciano Sampaoli and Gilles Raynal are recorded as having studied under Franco Donatoni. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is music. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Employment is recorded with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and University of Bologna.
Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory and, from 1948, at the Bologna Conservatory. At least three generations of composers studied with Donatoni. Among his Italian pupils were Sandro Gorli, Roberto Carnevale, Giulio Castagnoli, Ivan Fedele, Luca Mosca, Riccardo Piacentini, Fausto Romitelli, Luc Brewaeys, Pietro Borradori, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Alessandro Solbiati, and Piero Niro; his foreign pupils include Michael Dellaira, Pascal Dusapin, Sylvie Bodorová, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Katia Tiutiunnik, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Juan Trigos. Donatoni died in Milan in 2000. His music appears on the CD labels Stradivarius, Kairos, and Neos.
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Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was a composer. The birth of Franco Donatoni is recorded on 9 June 1927, and the death on 17 August 2000. The birthplace of Franco Donatoni is recorded as Verona by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as Vérone (Italie) by the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Franco Donatoni died in Milan, Italy, according to the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
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1927
Franco Donatoni born at Verona.
2000
Franco Donatoni died at Milan.
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Franco Donatoni studied at Milan Conservatory, Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. He trained under Alberta d'Angeli Cattini and Cesare Cattini. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Franco Donatoni is recorded as having studied at Milan Conservatory, Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.
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