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Goffredo Petrassi

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Italian composer (1904–2003)

Person · Open Library

Born
1904
Died
2003
Works
27

Top works

  • Conversazioni con Petrassi
  • Scritti e interviste
  • Souffle
  • Settimo concerto per orchestra (1964)
  • Beatitudines

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1904-07-06
Active to
2003-03-03
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1,430
Total plays
13,231

Tags

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Goffredo Petrassi (July 16, 1904 – March 3, 2003) was a leading Italian member of the second generation of modernists. In the English-speaking world, his contemporary Luigi Dallapiccola has been better known. However, in his own country, Petrassi, who took robustly Stravinskian and Hindemithian neo-classicism as the starting point for a long, varied, creative journey that continued into the early 1980s, was just as highly regarded. After Dallapiccola's death, he became the grand old man of Itali

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Goffredo
Gender
male
Citizenship
Kingdom of Italy
Place of birth
Zagarolo
Place of death
Rome
Languages spoken
Italian
Genre
opera
Instrument
organ
Image
Goffredo.petrassi2.jpg
Number of children
1
Residence
Rome
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Commons category
Goffredo Petrassi
date of birth
1904-07-16
date of death
2003-03-02
name in native language
Goffredo Petrassi
interested in
Miguel de Cervantes
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Goffredo Petrassi, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana