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Raphael was born on 6 April 1483 in Urbino, Duchy of Urbino [now Marche, Italy]. He is known for Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992), Night Descends on Treasure Island (1940) and Sister Wendy at the Norton Simon Museum (2002). He died on 6 April 1520 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Writer
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Michelangelo Buonarroti was born on 6 March 1475 in Caprese, Florence, Italy. He was a writer, known for So kindly to the cold stone is the fire... (2022), Yksitoista ihmisen kuvaa (2012) and Michelangelo (1963). He died on 18 February 1564 in Rome, Italy.- Music Department
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Giovanni Palestrina was born in 1525. Giovanni is known for The Island (2005), The Reader (2008) and Nymphomaniac: Vol. I (2013). Giovanni died on 2 February 1594 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Writer
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Torquato Tasso was born on 11 March 1544 in Sorrento, Kingdom of Naples [now Campania, Italy]. He was a writer, known for La Gerusalemme liberata (1957), La Gerusalemme liberata (1913) and La Gerusalemme liberata (1918). He died on 25 April 1595 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Music Department
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Emilio de' Cavalieri was born in 1550 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He is known for The Son of Joseph (2016), Lamenta (2015) and Cavalieri: La rappresentazione di anima e di corpo (2000). He died on 11 March 1602 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Music Department
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Stefano Landi was born on 26 February 1587 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. Stefano is known for Ava (2017), Aires 06 (2006) and Il Sant' Alessio (2007). Stefano died on 28 October 1639 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Composer
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Girolamo Frescobaldi was born on 12 September 1583 in Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara [now Emilia-Romagna, Italy]. He was a composer, known for Tale of Tales (2015), Sodrásban (1964) and Le pont des Arts (2004). He died on 1 March 1643 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Music Department
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Gregorio Allegri was born in 1582 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He is known for Face/Off (1997), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) and The Two Popes (2019). He died on 17 February 1652 in Rome, Papal States, Holy Roman Empire [now Lazio, Italy].- Giacomo Carissimi was born in 1604 in Marino, Lazio, Italy. He died on 12 January 1674 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Arcangelo Corelli was born February 17, 1653, in Fusignano, Italy. He studied violin with Bassani at the Music school in Bologna. In Rome he studied composition under Matteo Simeoni, the singer of the pope's chapel. Corelli established himself as composer and violinist in the 1670s. In 1672 he made a sensational debut in Paris, then successfully toured Euripean capitals. In 1678-1680 Corelli was in the service of Queen Christina of Sweden, who had taken up residence in Rome after her abdication. In 1681 Corelli was the court musician for the Prince of Bavaria.
Back in Rome Corelli composed and dedicated music to his aristocratic patrons, such as, Queen Christina, Cardinal Pamphili, Francesco II the Prince of Modena, Cardinal Ottoboni, who was Pope Alexander VIII from 1689-1691. Corelli gained recognition for the nice tone of his playing and for his elegant presentation. He was very attractive, well-mannered, and known for his talent for creating a special ambiance. Corelli was well received in the highest circles of the aristocracy. He was the permanent leader of the famous Monday concerts at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni, where he also resided for the most part of his life.
His rivalry and partnership with George Frideric Handel was legendary. Corelli was a great musician, but not a virtuoso. As it may be seen from his writings he never wrote or played above D on the highest string. Once Corelli refused to play the melody to the high A in the Handel's oratorio. Then Handel himself played the melody to the highest A, making Corelli very upset. Handel made a visit of respect to the great Corelli, as they both resided at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni in 1708-1710. Handel also continued the tradition of Corelli's Concerti Grossi.
Corelli developed Concerto Grosso into a form of secular entertainment for the aristocracy. He used the idea of a musical competition between two groups of musicians during the Concerto. A smaller group has only two violins and a cello, while the larger group is the full orchestra. At the beginning of concerto each group presents their beautiful theme with arrangements. During the course of the concerto both groups develop musical interaction and their melody lines become intertwined until they reach mutual culmination in the climax of the grand finale.
Many of Corelli's Concerti Grossi were based on the beautiful flowing melodies from his own violin sonatas. Corelli composed violin sonatas for his solo performances before his high patrons. Corelli's dynamic markings in all of his written music show his use of traditional terrace method of forte and piano dynamics. While unmarked, crescendo and diminuendo were left to be played intuitively between the extremes of piano and forte. Corelli also liberated the accompanying parts from restrictions of the counterpoint rules.
Corelli was a highly reputable teacher of music and composition. Besides giving music lessons to his aristocratic patrons, he taught such composers as Francesco Geminiani and Pietro Locatelli. His strong influence was recognized by Antonio Vivaldi who became Corelli's successor at the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni. Johann Sebastian Bach studied Corelli's compositions. A remarkable tribute to Corelli was made by Sergei Rachmaninoff in his concerto for piano and orchestra titled 'Rhapsody on a theme of Corelli' (aka.. Corelli Variations, Opus 42, 1931), which is best known for it's performances by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Arcangelo Corelli died on January 8, 1713, in Rome and was laid to rest in the Pantheon of Rome.
Corelli's Concerti Grossi may be heard in film soundtracks as well as in numerous recordings of the Baroque music and in live concert performances.- Giovanni Battista Piranesi was born on 4 October 1720 in Mogliano Veneto, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Romantic Versus Classical Art (1973). He was married to Angela Pasquini. He died on 9 November 1778 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Charles Stuart was born on 31 December 1720 in Santi Apostoli, Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. Charles was a writer, known for The Queen's Palaces (2011). Charles was married to Louise zu Stolberg-Gedern. Charles died on 31 January 1788 in Santi Apostoli, Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].
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John Keats (31 October 1795 - 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley, although his poems had been in publication for less than four years when he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death. By the end of the century, he was placed in the canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 called one ode "one of the final masterpieces". Jorge Luis Borges named his first encounter with Keats an experience he felt all his life. Keats had a style "heavily loaded with sensuality's", notably in the series of odes. Typically of the Romantics, he accentuated extreme emotion through natural imagery. Today his poems and letters remain among the most popular and analyzed in English literature - in particular "Ode to a Nightingale", "Ode on a Grecian Urn", "Sleep and Poetry" and the sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".- Writer
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Cesare Sterbini was born in 1784 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Jumanji (1995), Fulltime Killer (2001) and Quartet (2012). He died on 19 January 1831 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Writer
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Jacopo Ferretti was born on 16 July 1784 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Cenerentola (1949), La Cenerentola (1982) and La Cenerentola (2017). He died on 7 March 1852 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy].- Richard Henry Dana Jr. was born on 1 August 1815 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Richard Henry was a writer, known for Two Years Before the Mast (1946). Richard Henry died on 6 January 1882 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Mary Botham, daughter of Samuel Botham and Ann (née Wood), was born at Coleford, Gloucestershire, where her parents lived temporarily, while her father, a prosperous Quaker surveyor and former farmer of Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, looked after some mining property. In 1796, aged 38, Samuel had married 32-year-old Ann, daughter of a Shrewsbury ribbon-weaver. They had four children: Anna, Mary, Emma and Charles. Their Queen Anne house is now called Howitt Place. Mary Botham was taught at home, read widely and began writing verse at a very early age.
On 16 April 1821 she married William Howitt and began a career of joint authorship with him. Her life was bound up with that of her husband; she was separated from him only during a period when he journeyed to Australia (1851-1854). She and her husband wrote over 180 books.
The Howitts lived initially in Heanor in Derbyshire, where William was a pharmacist. Not until 1823, when they were living in Nottingham, did William decide to give up his business with his brother Richard and concentrate with Mary on writing. Their literary productions at first consisted mainly of poetry and other contributions to annuals and periodicals. A selection appeared in 1827 as The Desolation of Eyam and other Poems like "The Spider and the Fly" (1829).
The couple mixed with many literary figures, including Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. On moving to Esher in 1837, Howitt began writing a long series of well-known tales for children, with signal success. In 1837 they toured Northern England and stayed with William and Dorothy Wordsworth. Their work was generally well regarded: in 1839 Queen Victoria gave George Byng a copy of Mary's Hymns and Fireside Verses.
William and Mary moved to London in 1843, and after a second move in 1844, counted Tennyson amongst their neighbours. In 1853 they moved to West Hill in Highgate close to Hillside, the home of their friends, the physician and sanitary reformer Thomas Southwood Smith and his partner, the artist Margaret and her sister Mary Gillies. Mary Howitt had some years earlier arranged that the children's writer Hans Christian Andersen would visit Hillside to see the haymaking during his trip to England in 1847. - R.M. Ballantyne was born on 24 April 1825 in Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland, UK. He was a writer, known for The Coral Island (2000) and The Coral Island (1983). He was married to Jane Grant. He died on 8 February 1894 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Abby Sage Richardson was born on 14 October 1837 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA. Abby Sage was a writer, known for The Pride of Jennico (1914). Abby Sage was married to Albert Deane Richardson (journalist) and Daniel A. McFarland. Abby Sage died on 5 December 1900 in Rome, Italy.
- Isaac Henderson was born on 13 February 1850 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer, known for The Mummy and the Humming Bird (1915). He was married to Marion Temple Brown. He died on 31 March 1909 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- John Pierpont Morgan is an American financier and banker who dominated corporate finance on Wall Street throughout the Gilded Age. As the head of the banking firm that ultimately became known as J.P. Morgan and Co., he was a driving force behind the wave of industrial consolidation in the United States spanning the late 19th and early 20th century.
Over the course of his career on Wall Street, J.P. Morgan spearheaded the formation of several prominent multinational corporations including U.S. Steel Corporation, International Harvester and General Electric. He and his partners also held controlling interests in numerous other American businesses including AT&T, Western Union and 24 railroads. Due to his financial clout, Morgan came to wield enormous influence over the nation's lawmakers and finances. During the Panic of 1907, he organized a coalition of financiers that saved the American economy from collapse.
As the Progressive Era's leading financier, J.P. Morgan's dedication to efficiency and modernization helped transform the shape of the American economy. Adrian Wooldridge characterized Morgan as America's "greatest banker". Morgan died in Rome, Italy, in his sleep in 1913 at the age of 75, leaving his fortune and business to his son, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. - Writer
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Arturo Colautti was born in 1851 in Zadar, Croatia, Austria-Hungary [now Croatia]. He was a writer, known for Adriana Lecouvreur (2011), The Metropolitan Opera HD Live (2006) and The Metropolitan Opera Presents (1977). He died on 9 November 1914 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Ferruccio Benini was born on 31 May 1854 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was an actor, known for Per la Patria! (1915). He died on 28 February 1916 in Rome, Italy.
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Francesco Paolo Tosti was born on 9 April 1846 in Ortona, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer, known for Because of Him (1946), The Great Caruso (1951) and Ritorna all'onda (1914). He died on 2 December 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Ettore Baccani was an actor, known for Adriana Lecouvreur (1919), Germania (1914) and La mano della scimmia (1913). He died on 26 October 1919 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Federigo Tozzi was born on 1 January 1883 in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. Federigo was a writer, known for Con gli occhi chiusi (1994). Federigo died on 27 March 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Mario Caserini was born on 26 February 1874 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1913), Capitan Fracassa (1919) and Romeo and Juliet (1908). He was married to Maria Caserini. He died on 17 November 1920 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Ercole Luigi Morselli was born on 19 February 1882 in Pesaro, Marche, Italy. Ercole Luigi was a director, known for Effetti di luce (1916). Ercole Luigi died on 16 March 1921 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Actor generic character actor, began his career in 1876 and over the years he served in various theater companies, including those of Francesco Benincasa Gervasi, Ermete Novelli and Virgilio Talli. From 1912 until his death he also worked in film for various labels such as the "Cines", the "Etna film", the "Film d'Arte Italiana", the "Itala Film", the "Tiber Film" and the "Fert". He was married to actress-director Julia Rizzotto.
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Camillo De Riso was born on 20 November 1854 in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [now Campania, Italy]. He was an actor and director, known for Nanà (1917), La principessa (1917) and Armiamoci e... partite! (1915). He died on 2 April 1924 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Carlo Rosaspina was an actor, known for La presa di Roma (20 settembre 1870) (1905). He died on 18 January 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Fausto Salvatori was born on 20 January 1870 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was a writer, known for I Borgia (1920), Redenzione (1919) and Figuretta (1920). He died on 3 June 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Emilio Ghione was born on 30 July 1879 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Il castello di bronzo (1920), I topi grigi (1918) and Za-la-Mort (1915). He died on 7 January 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Michele Bianchi was born on 22 July 1883 in Belmonte Calabro, Calabria, Italy. He died on 3 February 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff was born on 25 September 1889 in Weedingshall, Polmont, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK. Charles Kenneth Scott was a writer, known for The Burying Party (2018). Charles Kenneth Scott died on 28 February 1930 in Calvary Hospital, Rome, Italy.
- Drottning Viktoria was born on 7 August 1862 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Germany]. She died on 4 April 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Queen Victoria of Baden was born on 7 August 1862 in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden [now Baden-Württemberg, Germany]. She was married to King Gustaf V. She died on 4 April 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Elisa Severi was born on 6 April 1872 in Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Redenzione (1919), Circe moderna (1914) and La contessa Fedra (1914). She died on 26 August 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Umberto Fracchia was born on 5 April 1889 in Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. Umberto was a director and producer, known for La bella e la bestia (1919), Monella di strada (1920) and La sonata a Kreutzer (1920). Umberto died on 5 December 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Fausto Maria Martini was born on 14 April 1886 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer, known for Satan's Rhapsody (1917), Il rifugio dell'alba (1918) and Il volto del passato (1918). He died on 12 April 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Ugo Falena was born on 25 April 1875 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il re fantasma (1914), La vagabonda (1918) and Il natalizio della nonna (1924). He died on 20 September 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Producer
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Stefano Pittaluga was born on 2 February 1887 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a producer and writer, known for Maciste in Hell (1925), La canzone dell'amore (1930) and Caporal Saetta (1924). He died on 26 April 1932 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Director
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Sartorio was mainly a painter of landscapes and fantasy motifs, mainly based on classic poets, and legends. He was also an art teacher, an illustrator, a writer, an amateur photographer, and an independent film producer and director.
Son and nephew of artists, he became interested in paintings from an early age. He studied painting at the Accademia di San Luca, Rome. As a teenager, he followed the figurative style of Mariano Fortuny.
With the money he earned from his works, by his 20th anniversary he opened his own studio in Rome. In 1883, he worked in the decoration of the detached house of the count Gamberini, and presents in public his major work, "Malaria (Dum Romae consulitur morbus imperat)". The subtitle of the painting, in Latin, has a political message: while Rome has debates, the disease spreads. Co-financed by Pietro Giorgi, Sartorio opens a new studio in in via Margutta. In 1884, Sartorio visits Paris, and contacts Gabriele D'Annunzio. In 1886 befriends artists like Edoardo Scarfoglio and Francesco Paolo Michetti. At the Caffè Greco, in Roma, there was a gathering of artists animated by Angelo Conti, that were creating a new style, the Italian symbolism. Sartorio becomes a member of "In Arte Libertas" [Latin: Freedom through Art], fan association started by Nino Costa, and he will joint exhibits with him often. Still in 1886, he is one of the artists contributing to the "painted edition" of D'Annunzio's poems, published by Isaotta Guttadauro, in which one recognizes the pre-Raphaellite style that dominated the end of the 19th Century in Italian art.
His painting "I figli di Caino" won him the gold medal of the World Expo (Paris 1889). In 1893, Sartorio travels to England, where he has direct access of artists such as Burne-Jones, Rossetti and William Morris.
Karl Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1818 - 1901) invited Sartorio to teach painting at the Weimar Academy, which he accepted from 1896 to 1900. In 1901, Sartorio married Julie Bonn, daughter of Wilhelm Bonn (1843 - 1910) in Villa Bonn (Kronberg in the Taunus, Hochtaunuskreis district, Hesse, Germany), where the Frankfurt based, Hebrew bankers' lineage had a summer residence since 1864.
Shortly after, the couple moved to Sartorio's home, a rich mansion in a park, the Orti di Galatea, where they lived a few years until their marriage was annulled (1905). Sartorio re-designed the house entirely, both the interiors and the outdoor elements. Julie Bonn would die in 1944.
Sartorio accepted to participate in the Biennale di Venezia 1907; for it he worked very fast, and employing a technique of painting he devised himself, finishing a set of 11 large oil paintings (240 square meters in all) that were exhibited in the main hall of Venezia's Esposizione Internazionale, and remained there until the next Salon, in 1909. He will be present practically in all the Venezian events, from the 1st to the 17th Biennale, as well as in the Montecitorio (1908-1912).
During World War I, Sartorio manages to paint several works featuring episodes of war, but he was a volunteer in the Army, was wounded, and arrested by the enemy.
In 1918, free again, he marries his second wife, Marga Sevilla a younger woman who appeared in some of the earlier photographic and film experiments, Sartorio was an amateur photograph also, and eventually produced a film in which she stars as the mythic Galatea, but also alternating as the fairy Egeria, who appeared and disappeared from the sight of men travelling through the woods. Some say that Il mistero di Galatea (1918) is the best of Sartorio's few cinematic works.
(Thanks to various on line sources, mainly the museum catalog of MUVE - Fondazione Musei Civici Venezia)- Castellani appears mostly in historical films and always plays good characters, except in "Ben-Hur" 1925 film, which comes across in the Golthar pirate clothes. He began his career in 1911 with the short films "Santa Cecilia" and "La sposa del Nilo", playing the title role. In 1913 we see him in the Hungarian film "Quo Vadis?", which plays the role of Ursus, who will play the role again in the film of 1924. In 1919 the cast of "Il toro selvaggio", always in Ursus garments, which in this case is the protagonist of the film. Later appears in "La Sacra Bibbia" (1920), where he plays Cain, "Messalina" (1924), where he plays Tigranes, "Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei" (1926), in Eumolpus cloths, "Quello che non muore" (1926), where he is the protagonist and "La bella corsara" (1928), alongside Rina De Liguori, where he plays the lead role of the pirate. He died of diabetes January 19, 1933 at the untimely age of 52.
- Cardinal Cherrotte was born on 17 June 1872 in Italy. He died on 8 May 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Dario Niccodemi was born on 27 January 1874 in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy. He was a writer, known for L'ombra (1917), Una sombra en mi destino (1946) and Scampolo (1917). He died on 24 September 1934 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Cardinal Pietro Gasparri was born on 5 May 1852 in Capovallazza, Ussita, Marche, Italy. He died on 18 November 1934 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
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Achille Vitti was born on 22 November 1866 in Rome, Papal State [now Lazio, Italy]. He was an actor and director, known for Giovanni Episcopo (1916), Lo scoglio della morte (1916) and La vergine delle ginestre (1915). He died on 1 January 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Composer
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Ferenc Vecsey was born on 23 March 1893 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. He was a composer, known for La chanson du souvenir (1937) and Das Hofkonzert (1936). He died on 6 April 1935 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Music Department
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Italian composer who introduced Russian orchestral colour and some of the violence of Richard Strauss's harmonic techniques into Italian music. He studied at the Liceo of Bologna and later with Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov in St. Petersburg, where he was first violist in the Opera Orchestra. From his foreign masters Respighi acquired a command of orchestral colour and an interest in orchestral composition. A piano concerto by Respighi was performed at Bologna in 1902; a "notturno" for orchestra was played at a concert in the Metropolitan Opera House that year. His comic opera Re Enzo and the opera Semirama brought him recognition and an appointment in 1913 to the St. Cecilia Academy in Rome as professor of composition. He became director of the conservatory in 1924 but resigned in 1926. Respighi was drawn to the sensual, decadent climate of the Rome depicted by the poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, and in his celebrated suites--Pini di Roma (Pines of Rome, 1923-24) and Fontane di Roma (Fountains of Rome, 1914-16) especially--he sought to convey the subtlety and colour of the poet's imagination. Other suites include Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows, 1927); Gli ucelli (The Birds, 1927); Feste Romane (Roman Festivals, 1929); and Trittico Botticelliano (Botticelli Triptych, 1927, for chamber orchestra)