Antonio Veretti (Verona, February 20, 1900 - Rome, July 13, 1978) was an Italian composer.
Antonio Veretti (Verona, February 20, 1900 - Rome, July 13, 1978) was an Italian composer.
He studied at the Conservatory Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, where he was a pupil of Franco Alfano, and graduated in composition in 1921. Friend of Riccardo Bacchelli, who was also the author of some librettos of his works, attended the literary environment that gravitated around the magazine La Ronda. [1]
Veretti began composing in Milan in 1926, when he was music critic for La fiera letteraria and, at the same time, an active popularizer of contemporary music [ disambiguation needed ] in Italy. In Rome he founded the Conservatorio Musicale della Gioventù Italiana, where he taught until 1943. Later he was director of the Conservatory of Pesaro (1950-1952), Cagliari (1953-1955) and finally of the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence in the period 1956–1970. [2] He was a member of the Accademia di S. Cecilia and of the Accademia Filarmonica in Rome, of the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna and president of the Accademia Luigi Cherubini in Florence. He also wrote film music.
His music represented for a long time the avant-garde of the Italian production, both from the stylistic point of view (with the overcoming of verismo and the rediscovery of pre-nineteenth-century repertories) and methodological (with the progressive acceptance of the novelties of the Second Vienna School, up to the definitive acceptance of dodecaphony and post-Webernian serialism) and formal (in the musical theater he refused the traditional numbers introducing forms of instrumental music, on examples that started from the results of Alban Berg). [3]
The autographs of almost all of Veretti's compositions are preserved in the Ricordi Archives in Milan. [4]
The sketches of all his works (even the unfinished ones) are in the Fondo Veretti of the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole. [5] The fund was donated by his wife Ines to Veretti's friend and colleague Piero Farulli as early as 1978, [6] with a final donation in 2005 [7] At first kept in many rooms of Villa La Torraccia, since 1999 the collection has been gathered and catalogued in the library of the Scuola. [5] Although 30 pieces remained at the Florence Conservatory, it can be said that the fund has preserved its entirety and contains the composer's personal archives and library. The collection contains 44 autographs (many sketches) of Veretti's compositions, 41 printed scores (mainly by Ricordi) of his works, 178 musical scores and manuscripts by other composers (from all periods, but especially from his contemporaries), 184 studio scores (with music ranging from Haydn to Boulez), and almost 300 monographs on musical, theatrical, literary and poetic subjects (from acoustics to harmonic theory). The archival material includes correspondence, tickets, photocopies, minutes of articles by and about Veretti (also added after his death), theater programs, honors, illustrative notes on his compositions, also in foreign languages, personal photos and photos of performances of his works, sketches and sets. [7] The collection can be consulted on the OPAC of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, which is part of the Sistema Documentale Integrato dell'Area Fiorentina (SDIAF). [8]
Veretti published almost exclusively with Ricordi, with occasional collaborations with Suvini Zerboni. Most of the first editions are in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, followed by the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, the conservatories of Milan and Cagliari, and the Fondazione Levi in Venice. [9]
Most of the letters that Veretti sent to his publisher Ricordi are in the Archivio Ricordi in Milan, [10] and many others are in the Fondo Veretti of the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole. [7]
Veretti composed theatrical, vocal-instrumental, and instrumental music. Major compositions include:
| Date | Title | Director | Ensemble | Label | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | Canzone degli spazzacamini | Renata Cortiglioni | Coro di voci bianche dell'ARCUM | Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi | Recording released on CD by the Institute in 2007 with many other pieces for choir performed by the same interpreters. |
| 1960 | Burlesca | Massimo Freccia | RAI Milano | nastro per archivio interno della RAI, riversato su Compact Disc dall'Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi nel 1997 | Recorded at the RAI studios in Milan on June 23, 1960 [11] [12] [13] [14] |
| 1962 | Sinfonia sacra | Mario Rossi | RAI Roma | nastro per archivio interno della RAI | Recorded with a voice quartet by Giovanni Paisiello on March 22, 1962 |
| 1964 | I sette peccati | Rudolf Albert | RAI Milano | nastro registrato da una trasmissione radiofonica | Transmission of January 14, 1964 |
| 1965 (data incerta) | Sinfonia sacra | Nino Sanzogno | RAI Torino | nastro per archivio interno del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino | Recorded with Luigi Dallapiccola's Piccolo concerto for Muriel Couvreu (pianist Gino Gorini) [15] [16] |
| 1965 | Una favola di Andersen | Luigi Colonna | orchestra sconosciuta | registrazione non inclusa in nessun repertorio | Appears in the catalog of the collector Orfeo Vedovo [17] |
| 1966 | Prière pour demander une étoile | Nino Antonellini | Coro da camera della RAI | Fabbri Editori (collana La musica moderna) | Recorded with Roman Vlad's Lettura di Michelangelo and Giorgio Federico Ghedini's sacred music in the Basilica of San Domenico in Siena on September 5, 1966 [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] |
| 1967 (data incerta) | Sonata per violino e pianoforte (dedicata a una figlia immaginaria) | Delia Pizzardi (pianoforte), Bruno Salvi (violino) | Fabbri Editori (collana La musica moderna) | Recording included in the previous disc [19] [22] | |
| 1986 | Canzone degli spazzacamini | Paolo Lucci | Coro di voci bianche dell'ARCUM | Istituto Centrale per i Beni Sonori e Audiovisivi | Recorded for the Institute in 1986 with many other works for a cappella choir [23] |
| 1993 | Benedetto sia 'l giorno | Bernardino Streito | Corale polifonica Valchiusella | Pro Civitate Christiana | Recorded with many other sacred choral pieces in the parish church of Trausella (Turin) in June and September 1993 [24] [25] |
| 2015 | Preludio accademico Canzone in memoria di Arcangelo Corelli Rondò popolaresco | Pietro Bernasconi (organo) | Elegia | Recorded in Vercelli, together with music for organ (or transcribed for organ) composed by Antonio Bazzini, Amilcare Ponchielli, Mario Pilati, Nino Rota. [26] | |
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