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Respighi, Ottorino / Fagiani, Eugenio Maria
Unanimously considered a master of orchestration, even before being a great symphonic composer, Ottorino Respighi was a cosmopolitan musician from a young age. After studying composition with Giuseppe Martucci in Bologna, he had crucial lessons with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
His Sinfonia Drammatica is the only composition he wrote in the form of a symphony (the Roman triptych - Pini di Roma, Fontane di Roma, Feste Romane - it is in fact a serie...