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Gino Tagliapietra
1887 - 1954
Italy
| G. Tagliapietra |
Gino Tagliapietra (30/05/1887 - 08/08/1954), an Italian pianist and composer, born in Lubiana, Slovenia, died in Venice, Italy. The ltalian pianist, teacher, and composer, Gino Tagliapietra, studied piano with Julius Epstein in Vienna and with Ferruccio Busoni in Berlin. In 1906 he was appointed to the faculty of the Liceo Benedetto Marcello in Venice; retired in 1940.
| Source: | Grove's dictionary of music and musicians and http://www.rodoni.ch/malipiero/tagliapietra.pdf |
Requiem
| Period: | Expressionism |
| Composed in: | 1923 |
| Musical form: | mass |
| Text/libretto: | Latin mass |
| In memory of: | the composer's mother |
This Requiem (1923) is for soli, mixed choir and orchestra. It was dedicated to the mother's composer, who died in 1921.