Elsa Respighi

Italian singer and composer

Elsa and Ottorino Respighi in the 1920s

Elsa Respighi (née Olivieri-Sangiacomo) (24 March 1894 – 19 March 1996) was an Italian singer and composer. She was the wife and former pupil of Ottorino Respighi.

## Biography

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A singer (mezzo-soprano) and composer herself, Elsa Respighi created ballets out of Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances suites and completed his final opera Lucrezia in 1937. Throughout her long life she championed her husband's work unfailingly. In 1955 she produced a memoir of her encounters with some of the most influential cultural figures of the early twentieth century. She also published a biography of Respighi in 1962.

In 1969 she established Fondo Respighi at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, to promote music education in Italy. She was also at the forefront of the 1979 Respighi Centenary celebrations, which saw a number of long-neglected works performed and recorded for the first time.[1] Since then, several of her own works, chiefly for solo voice with accompaniment, have been given their premiere.

## Death

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She died one week short of her 102nd birthday in 1996.

## Works

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Elsa Respighi's works include:[2]

* 3 Canzoni su testi spagnoli
* 4 L iriche dai Rubaiyat
* Berceuse bretonne
* Cantare Campagnolo
* Je n'ai rien
* La Mamma Povera
* Momento
* Duermete mi alma
* La muerte del Payador
* Due canzone Italiane

## References

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1. ^ "Adriano's Conversations with Elsa Respighi".
2. ^ "Elsa Respighi | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links". AllMusic.

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Ottorino Respighi

* List of operas
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Operas|

* Belfagor
* La bella dormente nel bosco
* La campana sommersa
* La fiamma
* Lucrezia
* Maria egiziaca
* Marie Victoire
* Re Enzo
* Semirâma

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* La Boutique fantasque

Concertante|

* Concerto gregoriano
* Concerto in modo misolidio
* Piano Concerto in A minor
* Violin Concerto in A major

Orchestral|

* Ancient Airs and Dances
* Suite 1
* Suite 2
* Suite 3
* Fountains of Rome
* Pines of Rome
* Roman Festivals
* Rossiniana
* The Birds

Chamber|

* Violin Sonata in B minor

Piano|

* Sei pezzi per pianoforte

Orchestrations|

* Five Études-Tableaux (Rachmaninoff)
* Prelude and Fugue in D major, BWV 532
* Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582 (J. S. Bach)

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* Elsa Respighi
* Claudio Guastalla
* Salvatore Di Vittorio
* Pupils
* Respighi family

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* Overture Respighiana

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