Vittorio Rieti

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Vittorio Rieti (28 January 1898 – 19 February 1994) was an Italian and American composer.

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Biography

Rieti was born to a family of Jewish descent in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt. He later moved to Milan to study economics. Subsequently, he studied music in Rome with Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella, and lived there until 1940. [1]

In 1925, he temporarily moved to Paris and composed music for George Balanchine's ballet for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Barabau. [2] He met his wife[ who? ] in Alexandria. He was a cousin of actor Vittorio Rietti.[ citation needed ]

He emigrated to the United States in 1940, becoming a naturalized American citizen on 1 June 1944. He taught at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore (1948–49), Chicago Musical College (1950–54), Queens College, New York (1958–60), and New York College of Music (1960–64). He died in New York on 19 February 1994. [1]

Selected works

Ballet
Orchestral
Concertante
Chamber music
Keyboard
Film music [4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Rieti, Vittorio" in Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, ed. Laura Kuhn. Schirmer Books, 1997.
  2. ↑ Samuel Rechtoris (1991) – booklet note published in "Vittorio Rieti" CD, New World NWCR 601
  3. ↑ Palmer, Larry (August 1982). "Harpsichord News" (PDF). The Diapason . 73 (873): 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2023. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
  4. ↑ Internet Movie Database
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