Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.

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Verona Verona ( ; ; or ) is a city on the Adige, River Adige in Veneto, Italy, with 255,131 inhabitants. It is one of the seven provincial capitals of the region, and is the largest city Comune, municipality in the region and in Northeast Italy, nor ...

, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the

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and, from 1948, at the Bologna Conservatory. At least three generations of composers studied with Donatoni. Among his Italian pupils were Sandro Gorli,

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, Giulio Castagnoli, Ivan Fedele, Luca Mosca, Riccardo Piacentini, Fausto Romitelli, Luc Brewaeys, Pietro Borradori, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Alessandro Solbiati, and Piero Niro; his foreign pupils include Michael Dellaira,

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, Sylvie Bodorová,

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, Magnus Lindberg, Katia Tiutiunnik,

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, and Juan Trigos. Donatoni died in Milan in 2000. His music appears on the CD labels

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, and Neos.

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A reminiscence of Donatoni by Jeffrey Levine
* 1927 births 2000 deaths Italian male classical composers Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni Milan Conservatory alumni Musicians from Verona 20th-century Italian classical composers 20th-century male composers International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners Twelve-tone and serial composers 20th-century Italian male musicians Maderna scholars {{Italy-composer-stub

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