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Music
Casella made a brilliant orchestration of Mily Balakirev’s famous piano fantasy, Islamey ("Oriental Fantasy").
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Life
Italian composer (1883-1947). Sent to Paris conservatory in 1896 to study piano under Diémer and composition under Fauré. In WWI he went to Rome to teach piano at the Academia di Santa Cecilia. In 1924 he founded with d’Annunzio and Malipiero an association for the propagation of modern Italian music.
Places
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- Italy, Torino, Via Cavour, 13 —
- ([building closed] ?) Alfredo Casella *1883
- Italy, Venezia - Isola di San Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio Cini —
Archive with Malipiero, Casella, Respighi, Vivaldi, a.o. Also has the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi within its walls.- Italy, Roma, Via Giovanni Nicòtera, 5 — 1926
last residence of Alfredo Casella 1926-†1947- Italy, Roma, Piazzale del Verano Cimetero Campo Verano — 5 Mar 1947
- graves of Casella and Sgambati ? - cenotaph Mascagni †1945 (grave in Livorno)
Sources — links
- The Library of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester has a great database re Casella.
Concerts
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Events
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21 January 1917: Premiere of Elegia Eroica, in Rome, Italy.
8 October 1938: Premiere of violin concerto, in Moscow, Russia.
27 March 1941: Premiere of Symphony no. 3, in Chicago, USA.
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