Likes: What are your favorite Italian composers who created their works in the years 1800 - 1950?
Ferruccio Busoni (1866 - 1924)
Alfredo Casella (1883 - 1947)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968)
Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882 - 1973)
Giuseppe Martucci (1856 - 1909)
Niccolò Paganini (1782 - 1840)
Lorenzo Perosi (1872 - 1956)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880 - 1968)
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Ottorino Respighi (1879 - 1936)
Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868)
Giovanni Sgambati (1841 - 1914)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
Your Favorite Italian Composers Who Created Their Works In The Years 1800 - 1950
What are your favorite Italian composers who created their works in the years 1800 - 1950?
I picked a handful, with Respighi and Puccini as my favourites (the others are Busoni, Donizetti, Martucci), but I like works of many of the others as well. Bellini should have been included imo (and would have also gotten my vote).
Why are Giorgio Federico Ghedini (1892-1965) or Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945) absent?
Malipiero, Respighi & Busoni constitute my triumvirate from those listed.
The 15 slot maximum is to blame.Originally Posted by Prodromides
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The four greatest composers: Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti and Verdi. They wrote great operas.
"You must have no dependence on your own genius. If you have great talents, industry will improve them; if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency." Sir Joshua Reynolds, PRA, FRS, FRSA (1723 - 1792)
As I am not a lover of opera music, my favorite composers are those focused on instrumental, orchestral and chamber music. That are: Respighi, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Perosi, Paganini, Sgambati and Martucci.
A couple of Verdi and Puccini operas but I'm afraid my favorites are post 1950.
“Music makes you feel feelings. Words make you think thoughts. But a song can make you feel a thought.”
- Yip Harburg
I voted for
Casella
Malipiero
Paganini
Puccini
Respighi
Rossini
Verdi
But most of my real favourites are post 1950
1. Maderna
2 Nono
3 Berio
I have recordings in my collection by Italian composers that I like:
Sciarrino
Donatone
Morricone
Bussotti
Manzoni
Corghi
I have recordings in my collection by Italian composers, but I don't really enjoy the music
Elisabetta Brusa (I have really tried)
Ludovico Einaudi
My new year's resolution is to buy less new music and listen more to the absolutely STUPID amount of music I already have.
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#MeToo
Hope you also like Petrassi
Although this is not related to this thread, I think you might like Italian soundtracks since you list Morricone.
I'm quite addicted to albums by Piero Piccioni, Carlo Savina, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Armando Trovajoli, etc.
For me Dallapicola has to be in there.
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What is the reason that Ruggero Leoncavallo is excluded from this survey and not even mentioned in any of the comments?
The lack of representation of the Italian avant-garde renders this poll irrelevant, IMO. I realize the OP purposely wished to exclude the most important Italian composers from the 20th century. Which is why I did not vote.
The number of important Italians in the 20th century is impressive and their importance has continued into the 21st century.
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I voted for Rossini, Verdi, Malipiero and Respighi.
But ArtMusic, you left off Rodney Dangerfield's favorite Italian composer: Vincenzo Boombatz!
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Yes, agreed. I mentioned Dallapicola because his serial music is particularly accessible and I've enjoyed it ever since hearing La quaderno musicale di Anna Libera. Aldo Clementi and Giacinto Scelsi are more challenging but certainly worth becoming acquainted with.
In the recent past I've tended to separate romanticism from "modernism-plus" as necessarily different, and best kept apart to avoid the fights that have happened. Starting to re-think that way of doing things.
Last edited by Roger Knox; Mar-05-2021 at 04:38.
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