Riccardo Zandonai
Also known as Zandonai, Francesco
Born1883-05-28
BirthplaceRovereto
CountryItaly
GenderMale
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Biography
Riccardo Zandonai was born on May 28th 1883 in Borgo Sacco and died on June 5th 1944 in Trebbiantico.
As a young man, he showed such an aptitude for music that he entered the Pesaro Conservatorio in 1899 and completed his studies in 1902; he completed the nine-year curriculum in only three years. Among his teachers was Pietro Mascagni, who regarded him highly.
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Zandonai's best known work is his opera Francesca da Rimini, a free adaptation of a tragedy which Gabriele d'Annunzio had written expanding a passage from Dante's Inferno; it has never fallen entirely from the repertoire, and has been recorded several times.
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