Antonio Scontrino: Polca, for Cello and Piano
14.90€
- Composer(s): Antonio Scontrino
- Edition: Da Vinci Edition
- Editor: Teresa Raffaella Suriano
- Format: A4 - Paperback
- Genre: Chamber
- Instrumentation: Cello, Piano
- ISMN: 9790216213110
- Pages: 20
- Period: Modern
- Publication year: 2020
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Description
Nota introduttiva
Il manoscritto di questa “Polca per violoncello con o senza pianoforte”, è custodito a Palermo, nella biblioteca del Conservatorio, con collocazione Sco.II.f.20-22, come da testamento dell’Autore, che ha voluto donare i manoscritti delle sue composizioni all’Istituto dove aveva studiato. Questa breve composizione di A. Scontrino, della durata approssimativa di 4 minuti, ha un carattere virtuosistico e brillante. … [by Teresa Raffaella Suriano]
Composer(s)
Antonio Scontrino: (b Trapani, Sicily, 17 May 1850; d Florence, 7 Jan 1922). Italian double bass player and composer. His father, a carpenter, was an ardent music lover and amateur instrument maker. Antonio joined the family orchestra at the age of seven, playing on a cello adapted to serve as a double bass. From 1861 to 1870 he studied at the Palermo Conservatory where his teachers included Luigi Alfano (harmony) and Pietro Platania (counterpoint and composition). He then toured as a double bass virtuoso throughout southern Italy. In 1871 he obtained the libretto of an opera from Leopoldo Marenco, but the work, Matelda, was not produced until 1879.
Aided by a grant from the municipality and province of Trapani, Scontrino went in 1871 to Munich, where for two years he studied German music. In 1874 he went to England as a member of Mapleson’s orchestra and afterwards settled in Milan as a teacher of instrumental, vocal and theoretical music. He was appointed professor of counterpoint and composition at the Palermo Conservatory in 1891, and the following year gained a similar professorship at the Istituto Musicale in Florence.