Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals and his operas especially La fiamma. His musicological interest in 16th-, 17th- and 18th-century music led him to also compose pieces based on the music of this period. Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy. He was taught piano and violin by his father, who was a local piano teacher. He went on to study violin and viola with Federico Sarti at the Liceo Musicale in Bologna, composition with Giuseppe... Martucci, and historical studies with Luigi Torchi, a scholar of early music. A year after receiving his diploma in violin in 1899, Respighi went to Russia to be principal violist in the orchestra of the Russian Imperial Theatre in St Petersburg during its season of Italian opera. While there he studied composition for five months with Rimsky-Korsakov. He then returned to Bologna, where he earned a second diploma in composition.
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| Birthdate: | July 9, 1879 |
| Birthplace: | Bologna |
| Date of death: | April 18, 1936 |
| Education: | Liceo musicale di Bologna |
| Also known as: | Respighi, Ottorino |