Daniele (Alexandrovich) Amfitheatrof (Russian: Даниил Александрович Амфитеатров, October 29, 1901 – June 4, 1983) was a Russian composer and conductor. Russian ( transliteration:,) is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia, the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages Events 437 - Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor, marries Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of his cousin Theodosius II Year 1901 ( MCMI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar) Russia (Россия Rossiya) or the Russian Federation ( Rossiyskaya Federatsiya) is a transcontinental Country extending
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Early life
Amfitheatrof was born in St. Petersburg, into a family that was distinguished in various areas of the arts and culture. Saint Petersburg ( tr: Sankt-Peterburg,) is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River His father, Alexander Amfitheatrof, was a noted historian and writer. His mother Illaria (nee Sokoloff), an accomplished singer and pianist, had studied privately with Rimsky-Korsakov. Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov ( Николай Андреевич Римский-Корсаков, Nikolaj Andreevič Rimskij-Korsakov) also Nikolay
The composer's early life was one of extreme hardship. In January 1902, at the age of three months, he was removed to Siberia, where his father was imprisoned for publishing anti-Tsarist articles. Siberia (Сиби́рь Sibir) is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of Northern Asia and for the most part currently serving The Russian Empire ( Pre-reform Russian: Pоссійская Имперія Modern Russian: Российская Империя translit: Rossiyskaya In 1904 the authorities returned the family to St. Petersburg, after which time they emigrated to Italy. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest
At the age of six, Daniele commenced private music studies with his mother. In 1914 he was accepted as a student by Ottorino Respighi in Rome. For the astronomer see Lorenzo Respighi (1824—1889 For the crater named after Lorenzo Respighi see Respighi (crater. Shortly thereafter, however, the family returned to Russia, where Alexander Amfitheatrof was appointed as political advisor to Alexander Kerensky during the few months that he was Prime Minister prior to the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (Алекса́ндр Фёдорович Ке́ренский Aleksandr Fjëdorovich Kerenskij) ( June 11, 1970) served The October Revolution (Октябрьская революция Oktyabrskaya revolyutsiya) also known as the Soviet Revolution In spite of the political and social upheavals of the time, young Daniele received formal instruction in harmony under Nicolas V. Scherbatchef and Josef Wihtol at the Petrograd Conservatory between 1916 and 1918. The NA Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory ( Russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени In 1921, he was permitted to travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia for further study in counterpoint under Jaroslav Kricka. Prague (ˈprɑːg Praha (ˈpraɦa see also other names) is the Capital and Largest city of the Czech Republic. Czechoslovakia may also refer to what is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
After four years of ongoing hardships, the Amfitheatrof family escaped from Soviet Russia. A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Their perilous crossing through the Gulf of Finland was taken in the dead of night. The family returned to Italy in the spring of 1922. Daniele became a naturalised Italian citizen and resumed his formal music training under Respighi. He received his diploma in composition from the Royal Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1924. The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia ( English: National Academy of St Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world
Composer and Conductor
Following his graduation, Amfitheatrof took his place in Italian music circles of the day. In 1924 he was appointed pianist, organist, and assistant choral conductor of the Augusteo Symphony of Rome. The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the best-known orchestras in Italy. Successive appointments included a position as the artistic director of the Italian Radio in Genoa and Trieste (1929 - 1932), as well as the management of RAI in Turin, where he also conducted many symphony concerts, choral works and operas at the Teatro di Torino (1932 - 1937). Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Trieste (Trieste Slovene and Croatian: Trst; German: Triest) is a city and port in northeastern Italy very near to Rai - Radiotelevisione Italiana, known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian public service broadcaster, and is considered He also travelled extensively throughout Europe, conducting many of the leading orchestras there. Amfitheatrof's success as a composer in his own right was assured early on in his professional career by performances of his concert works, including Poema del Mare (1925), Miracolo della Rose (1926) and Christmas Rhapsody for Organ and Orchestra (1928) and American Panorama (1933). Later, he composed his first film score for Max Ophüls' La Signora di tutti (1934). Max Ophüls (born Maximillian Oppenheimer, 6 May 1902, Saarbrücken, Germany - 25 March 1957, Hamburg La signora di tutti or Everybody's Woman ( 1934) is a Italian Drama film directed by Max Ophüls, and starring
Arrival in the United States of America
Following the premiere of his programmatic work American Panorama (1935), which was conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos in Turin in 1937, Amfitheatrof was invited by the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra to a position as Mitropoulos's associate for the first two months of the 1937-1938 concert season. Dimitris Mitropoulos (Δημήτρης Μητρόπουλος ( &ndash November 2, 1960) known in the West as Dimitri Mitropoulos The Minnesota Orchestra is an American Orchestra based in Minneapolis Minnesota. Amfitheatrof arrived in the United States with his wife (née May C Semenza), his son, Erik (b. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the 1931), and daughter, Stella Renata (b. 1934), at New York Harbour on October 21, 1937. Events 1512 - Martin Luther joins the theological faculty of the University of Wittenberg. Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. His arrival was noted in the New York papers.
Amfitheatrof's busy schedule with the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra included concerts in regional Minnesota and the Province of Manitoba. Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers Manitoba (English ˌmænɨˈtoʊbə French /manitoba/ is a province of Canada, spanning 647797 square kilometres (250116 sq mi of North America His appearances were well liked by audiences and received much favourable press.
Amfitheatrof also accepted a brief engagement with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the behest of their conductor, Serge Koussevitsky, in 1938. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is an American orchestra based at Symphony Hall in Boston Massachusetts, USA WikipediaWikiProject Classical music#Biographical_infoboxes -->Dr
Hollywood
With World War II imminent in Europe, Amfitheatrof elected to remain in the United States. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including He relocated his family to California on the recommendation of Boris Morros, then director of music at Paramount Pictures. Boris Morros ( January 1, 1891 - January 8, 1963) was an American Communist Party member Paramount Studios Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and Distribution company, based in Hollywood California. Amfitheatrof was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios under an exclusive four-year contract (1939-1943). His scores at MGM include those for Lassie Come Home, the first major film of a young Elizabeth Taylor. Lassie Come Home ( 1943) is a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Feature film starring Roddy McDowall and canine actor Pal in a story Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE (born 27 February 1932) is a two-time Academy Award -winning English-American actress During his twenty-six years in Hollywood, where he was employed by each of the major studios at one time for another, he composed the scores (often uncredited) for over fifty films, including Another Part of the Forest, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Mountain, The Fan, and The Last Hunt. Another Part of the Forest is a 1948 American Drama film directed by Michael Gordon. Letter from an Unknown Woman ( Brief einer Unbekannten) is a novella by Stefan Zweig. The Mountain is a 1956 Dramatic film starring Spencer Tracy and Robert Wagner. The Fan is a 1949 American Drama film directed by Otto Preminger. The Last Hunt is a 1956 MGM western film directed by Richard Brooks and produced by Dore Schary His final score was written for Major Dundee in 1965. Major Dundee was a 1965 Western film written by Harry Julian Fink and directed by Sam Peckinpah. (This score, which was deplored by many, including director Sam Peckinpah, was replaced with a new score by Christopher Caliendo for the reconstructed version, which was released theatrically in 2005; both scores can be heard on the DVD, released later that year).
Amfitheatrof was twice nominated for an Oscar, for his work on Guest Wife and Song of the South. "The Oscar" redirects here for the film see The Oscar (film. Guest Wife is a 1945 film directed by Sam Wood, written by Bruce Manning and John Klorer, and starring Claudette Colbert Song of the South is a feature film produced by Walt Disney, released on November 12, 1946, by RKO Radio Pictures and based on the
Amfitheatrof once remarked in written correspondence (citation: private letters) with his friend and colleague, John Steven Lasher, that his career in Hollywood "as a prostitute composer" ultimately tarnished his image as a professional musician. As a result, he was unable to secure commissions or performances of his concert works.
Final Years
Amfitheatrof returned to Italy in 1959 and lived there for the most part until 1967. He made frequent visits to the United States during the final fifteen years of his life. Plans to secure funding for a stage musical called The Staring Match, the production of a film, and the completion of a cello concerto, were all doomed to failure. His final years were spent in relative seclusion in Venice and in Rome, where he died on June 4, 1983. Venice ( Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venesia or Venexia) is a city in Northern Italy, the capital of the Events 781 BC - The first historic Solar eclipse is recorded in China. Year 1983 ( MCMLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar)
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