Biography of Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
09.06.1927
Born in Verona
1946
Studies in Milano (Desderi), Bologna (Zecchi) and Rome (Pizzetti)
1953
Teacher at Bologna conservatory
1955
Teacher at Milano conservatory
1967
Teacher in Turin for composition
1969
Professorship for composition in Milan
1978
Gives a master class at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome
1989
Commissioned composition of the quintet Blow for the Quintetto Arnold
17.08.2000
Dies in Milan
Further information/Sources:
CDs with/from Franco Donatoni
Quintetto Arnold
- Allegretto (03:53:00)
- Allegro giocoso (03:46:00)
- Franco Donatoni: Blow, per quintetto di strumenti a fiato (1989), al Quintetto Arnold (12:56:00)
- Lento - Piu lento (00:40:00)
- Agiato (00:55:00)
- Vivo (00:59:00)
- Molto sostenuto (02:05:00)
- Rubato improvvisando (02:28:00)
- Mesto - attacca (00:58:00)
- Rubato molto agitato (00:57:00)
- Maestoso (01:08:00)
- Quietly (01:00:00)
- Adagio possibile (01:13:00)
- Vivace (01:52:00)
- Andante (01:59:00)
- Allegretto leggero (02:32:00)
- Intensely (01:06:00)
- Presto (01:44:00)
- Fantasy - tempo giusto (05:37:00)
- Molto sostenuto e calmo (00:00:02)
- Prestissimo minaccioso e burlesco (00:46:00)
- Lento (00:00:01)
- Prestissimo leggiero e virtuoso (00:55:00)
- Presto staccatissimo e leggiero (00:32:00)
- Presto staccatissimo e leggiero (01:14:00)
- Vivo, energico (01:08:00)
- Allegro con delicatezza (02:43:00)
- Sostenuto, stridente (01:12:00)
- Presto, bizzarro e rubato (00:56:00)
Elliott Carter: Woodwind Quintet (1948), to Mademoiselle Nadia Boulanger:
György Kurtág: Quintetto per fiati op. 2 (1959):
Elliott Carter: Eight Etudes and a Fantasy for woodwind quartet (1949) for Richard Franko Goldman:
György Ligeti: Zehn Stücke für Bläserquintett (1968) to the wind quintet of the Stockholm Philharmonic:
Claude Debussy (1989)
- Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantaisie en fa dièse mineur (04:52:00)
- Georg Philipp Telemann: Fantaisie en mi mineur (04:50:00)
- Theobald Böhm: Air allemand (05:12:00)
- I. Allemande (05:48:00)
- II. Corrente (03:50:00)
- III. Sarabande (04:52:00)
- IV. Bourrée anglaise (01:52:00)
- Niccolo Paganini: 24e Caprice (06:39:00)
- I. Poco adagio (05:43:00)
- II. Allegro (04:07:00)
- III. Allegro (03:04:00)
- Claude Debussy: Syrinx (02:48:00)
- André Jolivet: Incantation (02:33:00)
- Pierre-Octave Ferroud: Jade (02:24:00)
- Franco Donatoni: Nidi (07:05:00)
- Paul-Agricole Génin: Carnaval de Venise (05:07:00)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Partita a-moll BWV 1013:
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonate a-moll:
Auf dieser Aufnahme wurden Original-Instrumente des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts verwendet.
Literature von/über Franco Donatoni
- Flöteninstrumente und ihre Baugeschichte - Spielpraxis - Komponisten und ihre Werke - Interpreten1. edition Laaber: Laaber-Verlag,2009. - ISBN: 978-3-89007-545-7
Last edit 24.12.2011