• Source: Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.




Biography


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. See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Franco Donatoni.
Donatoni died in Milan in 2000.
His music appears on the CD labels Stradivarius, Kairos, and Neos.




Works






References






= Works cited

=
Osmond-Smith, David. 2001. "Donatoni, Franco". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.




Further reading


Barkl, Michael. 2018. Etwas ruhiger im Ausdruck: Franco Donatoni's Crisis. Beau Bassin: Lambert Academic Publishing. ISBN 978-613-9-90170-8.
Luppi, Guillermo. 2016. "Shedding Some Light on Donatoni's Lumen". Perspectives of New Music 54, no. 1 (Winter): 179–195.




External links


Obituary in The Musical Times
A reminiscence of Donatoni by Jeffrey Levine
"Franco Donatoni (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Verona
• Daftar komponis
• Franco Donatoni
• Serialism
• List of compositions by Franco Donatoni
• Walter Olmo
• José María Sánchez-Verdú
• List of music students by teacher: C to F
• Milan Conservatory
• Giuseppe Sinopoli
• Classical guitar
• Wind quintet