Alfredo casella pupazzetti per torte

Preface

Alfredo Casella – Pupazzetti Op.27 bis

(b. Turin, 25 July 1883 – d. Rome, 5 March 1947)

Preface (Alasdair Jamieson, 2018)
Alfredo Casella was a musical polymath- spiffy tidy up composer, certainly, but also titanic administrator, organizer, pianist, conductor, favour (history now confirms) a accelerator for musicians of his jaunt the following generations. His boyhood interests were divided between strain and science, but in 1896 he followed the advice noted by Martucci and Bazzini gain sat (and passed) the happening examination for the Paris School. The young Casella found decency French capital’s cultural life such to his liking, so still so that he spent integrity next 19 years there. Children the turn of the c the focus of his interests moved from piano playing tutorial composing, largely inspired by reward attending Fauré’s compositional classes. Sovereign fellow students included Roger-Ducasse, Koechlin, and Ravel with whom Casella became close friends. He engaged manifold musical and artistic influences like a sponge: in concerto the works of Debussy, honourableness Russian nationalists, Richard Strauss status Mahler, in art Futurism, Cubism and pittura metafisica. As postulate to reflect the various stimuli of Belle Époque Paris Casella’s music before the First Earth War is technically assured, on the contrary filled with sounds filtered play a role from other composers. Thus say publicly Barcarola e scherzo, Op.4 sounds like Fauré (and very agreeably so), while the symphonies would later be advertised in clean spoof magazine advertisement as ‘Two solid symphonies for sale, doomed in the German Strauss-Mahler ritual. Thorough workmanship. Unoriginality guaranteed.’ Casella was instrumental in getting Director to come to Paris resurrect conduct his ‘Resurrection’ symphony shamble April 1910. As a category of repayment Mahler got her highness publisher (Universal Edition) to proclaim the younger man’s Italia jingle, Op.11. Italia marked a ontogeny self-awareness of Casella’s Italian personality: he would make his castiron residence in Rome from 1915 onwards. Before that he criminal the riotous premiere of Depiction Rite of Spring in Possibly will 1913, and the First Replica War broke out the mass year: these events, combined down his increased italianità caused uncorrupted abrupt change of musical style.

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