Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Sonatina canonica Op. 196 II. Tempo di Siciliane (Andantino)

Il brano è contenuto nel cd Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Complete Music for Two Guitars, vol.1 (Naxos).
Alle chitarre: Joao Luis e Douglas Lora (Brasil Guitar Duo).
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an italian composer, pianist and writer on music.
His formal musical education began at the Istituto Musicale Cherubini in Florence in 1909, where he received his licenza liceale in 1913 and his degree in piano the following year. In 1918 he completed the diploma di composizione at the Liceo Musicale of Bologna. The most important musical figure in Castelnuovo-Tedesco's early development was Pizzetti with whom he began to study in 1915. Pizzetti helped to bring him to the attention of Casella, who became an ardent supporter and whose patronage was crucial at the start of his career. In 1917 Casella, along with Pizzetti, Malipiero, Respighi, Gui, Carlo Perinello and Tommasini, formed the Società Italiana di Musica (later Società Nazionale di Musica Moderna); though not a founding member, Castelnuovo-Tedesco was strongly identified with the group. His reputation was further enhanced by performances sponsored by the Italian branch of the ISCM, which, over an 18-year period, put on more of his music than any other Italian composer other than Malipiero.
In addition to composing, he was a successful performer (as soloist, accompanist and ensemble player), critic and essayist. Described as a writer who 'demonstrated a quick-witted common sense and a good-natured scepticism for the new ... [an] attitude that came from his inborn aversion to any art that is characteristically fanatic' (F. D'Amico), he contributed criticism extensively to La critica musicale (1920--23), Il pianoforte (1922--5) (later Revista musicale italiana) and La rassegna musicale (1928--36) [...]
(The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, James Westby).

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