GIOVANNI BOTTESINI (1821-1889) by GASPARE NELLO VETRO

GASPARE NELLO VETRO

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GASPARE NELLO VETRO

Called him at the age of 6 months, the family h transferred to Rome, where his father, Peter, a renowned Dante scholar, poet and critic, was a teacher of literature at the Liceo Classico rate. After the baccalaureate, it h joined Law at the University of Rome and h graduated with a thesis of historical research. He served first as a military cadet, then second lieutenant of artillery, a period that some years later he recalled in volume by the AUC S. Ten. (Pr: Spaggiari, 1971). Earns a teaching certificate in legal matters and economic and won the contest for the Administrative Director, has served at the Conservatory of Milan in 1964 h was transferred to the Parma Conservatory and commanded the National Academy of Dance Rome for the reorganization of ten years of administration back: a finished work, the return to Parma. In Milan he wrote a text of commercial law for schools, which has seen four editions (Bergamo: Edizioni San Marco, 1965-1969). At the Conservatory of Music in Parma h was managing director until 1976, providing the foundation of the Conservatories of Mantua and Pescara. He wrote the music as a profession: law, contracts and law (Pr: Spaggiari, 1970), took his diploma in palaeography h and graduated with honors from the University of Parma in law and economics of international organizations. Thesis, the waterway and the International Committee of the Po river, based on unpublished archival documents, h was published by the University of Parma (Center for Studies and Research dell'amministrazioe, 1973) and won the prize at national contest literature in a book whose topic for the river Po (1976). Then the choice for the hermitage in the library, in order to satisfy the passion for research. Surrounded by the enchanting atmosphere of the old Convent of Mount Caramel (where it seems that the ghost of a librarian monk roams at night) and charters of the great musicians who have passed within those walls, he began writing on musical subjects. They watched as the light: the story of the Institute (Conservatory of Music: Studies and research, edited with Guido Piamonte, 1973), studies on Toscanini (Arturo Toscanini to the Royal Music School of Caramel, Pr: La Ducale, 1974 , the biography of the Master in support of the disks of Fratelli Fabbri, E, 1980-81; The Young Toscanini, Pr: STEP, 1982); research on Giovanni Bottesini, published by the University of Parma in 1989 for the centenary of the composer, at which initiated and organized the celebrations that drew at Parma leading bassists from around the world, Carlos Gomes (Carteggi Italian, MI: New Edition, 1977, translated in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro: Editora Catedra, 1982 , Carlos Gomes: the Guarani, Pr: Otium, 1996, which h in the process of translation into Portuguese and English Carteggi Italian II, published in Italian and Portuguese, Brazilian, Thesaurus, 1998), Mario Zanfi (Pr: Conservatory of Music , 1980), Ildebrando Pizzetti (Pr: Teatro Regio, 1980), Emanuele Muzio, Verdi's pupil (Pr: Zara, 1993), Lucretia Aguiari the Bastardella (Pr: Zara, 1993). In 1994 he decided to resign and retire. He reorganized the Museo del Risorgimento in Fidenza (also published the catalog, Bo: Grafis, 1989) and the Historical Archives of Fontevivo (1994-96), he edited the catalog of The Music Fund of the Banda della Guardia Nazionale di Parma preceding him with a broad historical premise (Pr: City of Parma, 1993), wrote the history of musical theater of Reinach in Parma (Pr: City of Parma, 1995) and in his series "Otium" he supervised the publication of first book translated in Italy on Heitor Villa Lobos, one of Vasco Mariz (1989), necklace, where, on the occasion of the celebrations of the centenary of the birth of his father, also played host to the wise do not perish (1997). In the series has also published research on the maker Archimede Fanfoni Luca Orlandini (1998). H the author of 400 musical terms of the Encyclopedia of Parma (I: Franco Maria Ricci, 1998). The I January 2001 has seen the light after a search began in 1975, the Triptych Parmesan with biographies and cross Cleofonte Italo Campanini and Arturo Toscanini (Parma: The Blue Rider). In 2001 he published Green 366. Ephemeris of a life (Parma: Tecnografica). Is conducting research for the writing of history and history of the Teatro Ducale in Parma (1687-1829). Articles, monographs, theater programs and conferences, has worked with newspapers, magazines, radio Italian and foreign institutions, theaters and cultural associations. Among the essays are to remember the original topic Verdi: Giuseppe Verdi's music teacher in Busseto. The unpublished opinion Alinovi and other papers of the State of Parma, "Verdi. Bulletin of the Institute of Verdi Studies", Parma, n. 8, 1973, pp. 1142-1151; Paganini, his letters ... and Verdi, in "Prospects music", Pescara, II (1983), pp. 69-70 (it is said to have been Luigi Savi and the young composer Giuseppe Verdi reported by Paganini impresario Lanari of Florence); Skies are blue, blue skies no (air III performed the first act of Aida in Cairo in 1871 ), in "The universality of music, the prestige of Italy, currently the Greens. Studies in honor of Mario Medici, II". Bologna Antiquae Musicae Italicae Scholars, 1986, pp. 123-125; A father and son Carlo and Giuseppe Verdi, in "Historical Archives of the provinces Parmesan", series IV, xxxix (1987), pp. 453-463 (where the family relationship is examined in light of the rules of the Duchy of Parma). H was awarded by the Ministry of Education of the Italian Republic of the Cross of Chevalier (1980) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil medal Villa-Lobos (1988), the Academia Brasileira de Musica has listed the corresponding member (1994), the President of the Republic of Brazil appointed him Commander of the Order of Rio Branco (1996) and the Municipality of Campinas voted her the Medal Carlos Gomes (1996). 

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