Alfredo Casella

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Alfredo Casella (25 July 1883 – 5 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Life and career

Casella was born in Turin, son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a friend of Paganini, appeared as the first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and then became a soloist in Turin's Royal Chapel. Carlo, Alfredo's father, was also a cellist, as well as Carlo and Gioacchino; his mother was a pianist who gave the boy his first music lessons.

Alfredo began studying piano under Louis Diémer and composition under Gabriel Fauré in 1896; among his fellow students in these classes were Lazare-Lévy, George Enescu, and Maurice Ravel. Claude Debussy, Igor Stravinsky, and Manuel de Falla were all friends during his Parisian period, and he was also in touch with Ferruccio Busoni, Gustav Mahler, and Richard Strauss.

Casella expressed a deep admiration for Debussy's output after hearing Prélude à midi d'un faune in 1898, but opted for a more romantic vein (stemming from Strauss and Mahler) in his own writing of the period rather than turning to impressionism. Casella's first symphony of 1905 is from this period, and it's here that he made his debut as a conductor when he conducteds Monte Carlo's premiere in 1908.

He began teaching piano at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome during World War II. Casella, the Boston Pops' principal conductor, was from 1927 to 1929, where he was succeeded by Arthur Fiedler. He was one of the best-known Italian piano virtuosos of his generation, and together with Arturo Bonucci (cello) and Alberto Poltronieri (violin), he formed the Trio Italiano in 1930. This group rose to fame in Europe and America. His fame as a pianist and his collaboration with the trio resulted in some of his best-known works, including A Notte Alta, the Sonatina, Nove Pezzi, and Op. Six Studies, Op. For piano, I believe there were 70 people. He wrote the Sonata a Tre and the Triple Concerto for the trio, which will be on tour.

Casella's greatest success with La Giara, set against a Luigi Pirandello scenario, was included in Italia's Concerto Romano (commissioned by Rodman Wanamaker and premiered at the Wanamaker Auditorium in New York), Partita and Scarlattiana for piano and orchestra, Strings, Timpani, and Percussion. Both Cello Sonatas and the very popular late Harp Sonata are among his chamber performances, as well as the flute and piano's music. Casella has also produced live-recording player piano music rolls for the Aeolian Duo-Art system, which are now available on the internet and can be heard. "Corporation of the New Music" began in 1923, he, Gabriele D'Annunzio, and Gian Francesco Malipiero of Venice, founded an association to promote modern Italian music.

Antonio Vivaldi's work in the 20th century are largely thanks to Casella's efforts, which culminated in the 1939 Vivaldi Week, in which poet Ezra Pound was also present. Vivaldi's compositions have enjoyed virtually universal success since then, but the emergence of historically informed performances has only boosted his stature. Antonio Fanna, a Venetian businessman, founded Istituto Italiano Vivaldi in 1947, with composer Malipiero as its artistic director, with the intention of promoting Vivaldi's music and releasing new editions of his works. Casella's advocacy for his Italian Baroque musical ancestors put him at the forefront of the early twentieth-century Neoclassical revival of music and inspired his own compositions greatly. Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven's piano works, as well as others, were highly influential on Italian players' musical taste and performance style in the following decades.

The generazione dell'ottanta ("generation of '80"), which includes Casella himself, Malipiero, Respighi, Pizzetti, and Alfano, all composers who lived in 1880, the post-Puccini period, concentrated on writing instrumental works rather than operas, which Puccini and his musical ancestors had specialized in. Members of this period were the leading figures in Italian music after Puccini's death in 1924; they had Italian literature and painting counterparts.

Casella, a painter who was particularly keen on painting, amassed a significant collection of paintings and sculptures. He was certainly one of the early musical development of Paris and the circle in which he lived and worked while there, as well as the wider region. He died in Rome.

Clotilde Coulombe, Stefan Bardas, Maria Curcio, Branka Musulin, Branka Musulin, Maurice Orr, Primo Roca, Montago Togni, Camillo Togni, and Bruna Monestiroli were among Casella's students.

He was married in 1921 to Yvonne Müller (Paris 1892 – Rome 1977). The grandchildren of actress Daria Nicolodi and their great-granddaughter, actress Asia Argento, are both a widow and a poet.

Casella, a citizen of Italy, was in conflict with it after the introduction of 1938 Italian racial law, his wife being a French immigrant. Since 1943, he was in constant fear of being disconnected from his wife and their daughter, who were detained and deported. One evening, after being warned of a raid on their flat, the family split up and hid in the homes of friends, not to reassemble until the 'Jew hunt' had ended.

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