birth_date: 1879-07-09 00:00:00
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name: Ottorino Respighi
about: Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and musicologist and one of the leading Italian composers of the early 20th century. His compositions range over operas, ballets, orchestral suites, choral songs, chamber music, and transcriptions of Italian compositions of the 16th–18th centuries, but his best known and most performed works are his three orchestral tone poems which brought him international fame: The Fountains of Rome (1916), The Pines of Rome (1924), and Roman Festivals (1928).[With thanks to Wikipedia]
death_date: 1936-04-18 00:00:00