Aldo Ciccolini

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Aldo Ciccolini in 2005

Aldo Ciccolini (Italian pronunciation: [ˈaldo tʃikkoˈliːni]; 15 August 1925 – 1 February 2015) was an Italian pianist who became a naturalized French citizen in 1971.

Biography

Aldo Ciccolini was born in

Naples Conservatory in 1934 at the age of 9, with special permission of the director, Francesco Cilea. There he studied piano with Paolo Denza, a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, and harmony and counterpoint with Achille Longo
.

He began his performing career playing at the

Domenico Piccichè, Ivan Donchev and Jean-Marc Savelli.[citation needed
]

Ciccolini was a celebrated interpreter and advocate of the piano music of the French composers Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Erik Satie as well as that of less prominent composers such as Déodat de Séverac, Jules Massenet and Alexis de Castillon.[citation needed]

Ciccolini was known for his having played the music of the Spanish composers Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, and Manuel de Falla, as well as of Franz Liszt. Soprano Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf said of him "I have hardly met a more wonderful partner and a more delightful companion."[citation needed]

On 9 December 1999, he celebrated a career in France spanning 50 years with a recital at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris.[4]

In 2008, he was appointed commander of the French National Order of Merit.[5]

Death

Aldo Ciccolini died on 1 February 2015 at his Paris residence, aged 89.[6]

Recordings

Ciccolini made more than a hundred recordings for EMI-Pathé Marconi and other record companies, including the complete sonata cycles of Mozart and Beethoven, the complete solo piano work of Debussy and two separate cycles of the complete piano works of Satie.

In 2002, Ciccolini was awarded the

Massenet
.

References

  1. ISBN 978 2 35035 333 3
  2. ^ "Fabio Mengozzi e Arnaldo De Felice compositori d'oggi, su ilfattoquotidiano=". 31 July 2018.
  3. ISSN 0458-3035. Archived from the original
    on 2015-12-23. Retrieved 2018-07-19.
  4. ^ "The pianist Aldo Ciccolini has died". Gramophone. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  5. ^ "Aldo Ciccolini on Treccani, the Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts". www.treccani.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2021-08-03.
  6. Yahoo
    .com. Retrieved 1 February 2015.
  7. ^ Pasternak, Joe Patti, Jill (6 February 2015). "Remembering the Elegant Pianist Aldo Ciccolini, 1925-2015". www.wrti.org. Retrieved 2021-08-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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