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Franco Alfano

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Italian composer and pianist (1875-1954)

Person · Open Library

Born
1876
Died
1954
Works
12

Top works

  • Il principe Zilah
  • Résurrection
  • Risurrezione
  • Madonna Imperia
  • Résurrection

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Total plays
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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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Key facts

Born
( 1875-03-08 ) 8 March 1875, Posillipo , Campania, Kingdom of Italy
Died
27 October 1954 (1954-10-27) (aged 79), Sanremo , Liguria, Italy
Occupations
Composer pianist

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Encyclopedic overview

Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his operas Risurrezione (1904), Sakùntala (1921), and Cyrano de Bergerac (1936), and for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926. He had considerable success with several of his own works during his lifetime.

Early life and training

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