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'''Arnold Franchetti''' (1911 - 1993) was a composer born in Lucca, Italy<ref>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= |authorlink= | title=Arnold Franchetti, A Music Professor | date=March 11, 1993 | publisher= | url =http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/11/obituaries/arnold-franchetti-a-music-professor.html?pagewanted=1 | work =New York Times | pages = | accessdate = 2010-03-07 | language = }}</ref>. Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, the Baron Alberto Franchetti (composer of the La Scala operas "Germania" and "Christofo Colombo", performed by Enrico Caruso. |
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Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, and then moved to Munich, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss for three years. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance. |
Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, and then moved to Munich, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss for three years. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance. |
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Franchetti composed works in all genres, including orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber, solo, and opera. His 1974 opera, "''Married Men Go to Hell", and the theatre works "Dracula 1979" and "Lazarus" (based on "Soul on Ice" by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver) are but a few of his significant contributions to new music. |
Franchetti composed works in all genres, including orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber, solo, and opera. His 1974 opera, "''Married Men Go to Hell", and the theatre works "Dracula 1979" and "Lazarus" (based on "Soul on Ice" by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver) are but a few of his significant contributions to new music. |
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Arnold Franchetti (1911 - 1993) was a composer born in Lucca, Italy[1]. Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, the Baron Alberto Franchetti (composer of the La Scala operas "Germania" and "Christofo Colombo", performed by Enrico Caruso.
Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, and then moved to Munich, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer Richard Strauss for three years. After a brief stint with the Italian army during World War II, Franchetti joined the anti-Mussolini underground resistance.
Franchetti arrived in the United States in 1948 and was befriended by composer Aaron Copland, who helped the young immigrant composer gain a professional footing by arranging performances of Franchetti's chamber music in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. He was appointed to the composition faculty of the Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford, where he remained until his retirement in 1980.
Franchetti's many successful composition students included: Barbara Kolb, Robert Beaser, Michael Schelle, Jay Gach, Henry Gwiazda, Jack Elliot, Norman Dinerstein, Gwen Walker, and many others.
Franchetti composed works in all genres, including orchestral, wind ensemble, chamber, solo, and opera. His 1974 opera, "Married Men Go to Hell", and the theatre works "Dracula 1979" and "Lazarus" (based on "Soul on Ice" by Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver) are but a few of his significant contributions to new music.
References
- ^ "Arnold Franchetti, A Music Professor". New York Times. March 11, 1993. Retrieved 2010-03-07.
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