Alberto Franchetti ( September 18, 1860 - August 4, 1942 ) - Italian composer.
| Alberto Franchetti Alberto franchetti | |
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 Alberto Franchetti in 1906 | |
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| Date of Birth | September 18, 1860 |
| Place of Birth | Turin , Italy |
| Date of death | August 4, 1942 ( 81) |
| Place of death | Viareggio , Italy |
| A country |  Italy |
| Professions | composer |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | opera |
Biography
Born in Turin in the family of opera singer ( baritone ) Raimondo Franchetti and Louise Sarah Rothschild - from a wealthy Viennese family. He studied first in Venice , continued his education in Dresden with Felix Dreseke and then at the Munich Conservatory with Joseph Reinberger . First achieved significant success in 1988 with the opera . The opera style of Franchetti combined Wagnerism , individual features of Meyerbeer and Italian verism . In life, critics called him "Meyerbeer of modern Italy."
Grove's musical vocabulary calls the best work of the composer the opera Christopher Columbus (1892). However, Germany (1902) became the most popular, until the first world war this opera was staged by the largest theaters in the world, and Caruso repeatedly recorded arias from it. From 1926 to 1928, Franchetti worked as director of the Luigi Cherubini Florentine Conservatory .
Franchetti's operas were banned for productions in Italy in connection with the fascist anti-Jewish policy of 1938 [1] . Pietro Mascagni asked Mussolini to show tolerance for Franchetti, but the application was rejected shortly before the death of the composer. Franchetti died in 1942 in Viareggio . His son Arnold Franchetti (1911-1993) emigrated to the United States in 1949, where he became a successful composer.
Staged operas
- Asrael (1888)
- Cristoforo Colombo , The Libretto by Luigi Illika (1892)
- Fior d'Alpe (1894)
- Il signor di Pourceaugnac (1897)
- Germania , libretto by Luigi Illika (1902)
- La figlia di Iorio , libretto by Gabriele d'Annunzio (1906)
- Notte di Legenda (1915)
- Giove a Pompei , together with Umberto Giordano (1921)
- Glauco (1922)
- Fiori del Brabante (1930)
Notes
- ↑ Noah David DeLong. Between two worlds: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, his journey from Italy to America, and his oratorio “The book of Ruth” : In a 1938 letter to Mussolini , composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco lists besides himself only four composers who remained in Italy at that time Jews: Alberto Franchetti, Leone Sinigaglia , Renzo Massarani and Vittorio Rieti .