Franco Alfano
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- Born
- 1876
- Died
- 1954
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Il principe Zilah
- Résurrection
- Risurrezione
- Madonna Imperia
- Résurrection
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Franco Alfano (March 8, 1875 – October 27, 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist best known for completing Puccini's unfinished opera Turandot in 1926. He was born in Posillipo, near Naples. Until recent times, musical histories usually gave the year of Alfano's birth, incorrectly, as 1876. He attended piano privately under Alessandro Longo (1864-1946), and harmony and composition respectively under Camillo de Nardis (1857-1951) and aulo Serrao (1830-1907) at the conservatory San Pietro a M
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5 total works indexed
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,425x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings 1PII of original article: S0169-409X(96)00423-1. The article was originally published in Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews 23 (1997) 3–25. 1
· 2001 · cited 10,663x
- Experimental and computational approaches to estimate solubility and permeability in drug discovery and development settings
· 1997 · cited 10,241x
- 2021 ESC Guidelines on cardiovascular disease prevention in clinical practice
· 2021 · cited 5,560x
- Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
· 2017 · cited 5,474x
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Key dates
- Born
- 8 March 1876
- Died
- 27 October 1954
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Franco
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Posillipo
- Place of death
- Sanremo
- Occupation
- musicologist
- Educated at
- University of Music and Theatre Leipzig
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Notable work
- Cyrano de Bergerac
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