Where are Italian composers??!


Question: Why did Italians sort of fade away towards 20th century?

The only fairly modern Italian composer I know of is Ottorino Respighi. Maybe it's just me being unknowledgeable, though there seems to have been a lot more Italian composers during the Romantique and Baroque era than 20th century.


Answers: Why did Italians sort of fade away towards 20th century?

The only fairly modern Italian composer I know of is Ottorino Respighi. Maybe it's just me being unknowledgeable, though there seems to have been a lot more Italian composers during the Romantique and Baroque era than 20th century.

You are wrong. There are several really influential Italian composers who were writing in the 20th century, among them:

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
Elisabetta Brusa (b 1954)
Alfredo Casella (1883-1947)
Luigi Dallapiccola (1904-1975)
Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)
Giorgio Ghedini (1892-1965)
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Franco Mannino (1924-2005)
Ennio Morricone (b 1928)
Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Goffredo Petrassi (1904-2003)
Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880-1968)
Vittorio Rieti (1898-1994)
Nino Rota (1911-1979)
Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988)
Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944)

None of these are just random obscurities - all are composers of real worth who wrote important music. Some of them were incredibly influential in 20th-century music (eg Berio, Dallpiccola, Donatoni and Nono, while Ghedini was Berio's teacher and very important in the development of 20th-century Italian music). All of those I list are worth further investigation.

Whoa ! Not so fast.You totally missed one composer that was of the 20th century (albeit the early years of the era), Giacomo Puccini. (unless you just don't like opera, or consider it somehow second to instrumental works ! )

"Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) was an Italian composer whose operas, including La Bohème, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, Turandot, Manon Lescaut, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire.[1][2] Some of his arias, such as "O Mio Babbino Caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun Dorma" from Turandot, have become part of modern culture."

Sergei, define "significance". If you're talking about "played all over the place, part of the canon," then Berio and Dallapiccola certainly apply. Yes, you are unknowledgeable. But you're also partly the victim of Germanic music historiography, in which opera is the only genre that it can be admitted that Italians contributed to. Italians historically have been less interested in the symphony, so (per some) they can't be "real" classical composers. Trust me; you can an accurate rundown from Del_. I'd advise you to try the Berio _Sinfonia_ or _Folk songs_ or Dallapiccola's _Il Prigioniero_ (sort of the post-Nazi response to _Fidelio_)

Except...Del_ modestly left off his favorite Italian composer, the sophisticated and profound pupil of Berio, Ludovico Einaudi



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