Search Details

Word: pizetti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti's new opera Fra Gherardo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Buenos Aires | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

Paris recently had an opportunity to hear a new opera, Phaedre?book by D'Annunzio and music by the modernist composer, Pizetti. As a piece of dramatturgy the opera was voted dull. But the music was praised loudly as a lovely bit of classical and archaic beauty. The composer is above all things a scholar, who, working his way into new harmonic textures, gives himself, at the same time, to an ardent study of the music of antiquity. He is a great authority on the Greek modes, and uses them with vast skill and charm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Italians | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...Pizetti is the philosopher of the new school of Italian composers. Italian musicians are becoming serious and profound. A new spirit has come over them. This is well illustrated by a spectacular disturbance which marked the opening of the Scala season two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Italians | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

| 1 |