Marco Anzoletti

Marco Anzoletti (Trento, 4 June 1867 – Messiano, 23 January 1929) was an Italian violinist and composer.

Biography
Marco Anzoletti was born in Trento on 4 June 1867, into a musical family, with his father Luigi, cellist, who founded the first musical beginnings. Also, all these were musicians: Francesco, a pianist, organist, and composer; Giovanni, a violinist; Giuseppe, a violinist and composer; Sister Luisa, a poet and writer, who also collaborated with him on the piano.

After family teachings, Anzoletti attended the Milan Conservatory from 1879 to deepen his knowledge of the violin with Gerolamo de Angelis and of composition with Gaetano Coronaro. Having graduated in 1885, the following year he went to Vienna for a specialization course under the guidance of J. Grün. After which he carried out numerous tours in Austria and Italy, obtaining successes, acclaim and recognition, including the violin chair at the Milan Conservatory in 1889.

Anzoletti's activity and work pursued the ideal of giving rise to the cult of chamber and symphonic music in Italy. His 24 Variations for violin and piano on a theme by Brahms (1894), written by Anzoletti on a theme by Johannes Brahms, were appreciated by the German master. Two years later Anzoletti won first prize with a Sonata in C minor for violin and piano in Milan. Anzoletti composed numerous works for the violin, with piano or organ accompaniment: sonatas, string trios and quartets, concertos, etc. He also composed important works for the organ, including the Gran fantasia sacra for due organs, awarded in the competition for the testing of the two organs of the Milan cathedral in 1909. Previously, in 1902 he had had success in Vienna with his cantata for choir and large orchestra, as well as for a symphonic poem, The Guest of the Earth, for large orchestra, later reduced for violin and piano and performed in Milan in 1913.

For educational purposes, Anzoletti also composed 12 Studies for viola (Milan, 1919 ), The repertoire of the little violinist (Milan, 1920 ), Moto perpetuo sopra movements of scales (Milan, 1920) and 12 Studies for viola op. 125 (Milan, 1929).

Anzoletti wrote five operas for the theatre, all with his own libretto, Militza o Serbia, a drama centered on the war between Montenegro and Turkey ( 1896 - 1897 ); The Races (1902); Faida, taken from Giosuè Carducci 's Feida di Comune ( 1910 - 1915 ); Belphegor, from the novella by Niccolò Machiavelli (1920); The end of Mozart, performed at the Teatro Lirico in Milan on 25 October 1898.

In addition to composition, Anzoletti dedicated himself to writing musical themes, including a conference on Giuseppe Tartini: critical and biographical study ( 1891 ), including a study of the author; On the events of the art and life of Wolfango Mozart, in La Rassegna Nazionale, XXI ( 1899 ); On the occasion of the centenary of D. Cimarosa, in La Rassegna Nazionale, XXIII ( 1901 ); Violin teaching in Italy, in La Rassegna Nazionale, XXXI (1901); also 43 musical sonnets (Milan, 1902); Mozart, scenes from intimate life in five paintings (Milan, 1906 ); Music - Seasons and metamorphoses, in La Rassegna Nazionale ( 1911 ).

Still active, Anzoletti died in his villa in Mesiano (a hamlet of Trento) on 23 January 1929.

Publications

 * Giuseppe Tartini: critical and biographical study (1891);
 * On the Events of Art and the Life of Wolfgang Mozart, in La Rassegna nazionale, XXI (1899);
 * On the occasion of the centenary of D. Cimarosa, in La Rassegna nazionale, XXIII (1901);
 * The Teaching of the Violin in Italy, in La Rassegna nazionale, XXXI, (1901);
 * Musical Sonnets (Milan, 1902);
 * Mozart, Scenes from Intimate Life in Five Pictures (Milan, 1906);
 * Music - Seasons and Metamorphoses, in La Rassegna nazionale, (1911).

Operate in music

 * Militza or Serbia (1896–1897);
 * La fine di Mozart (1898);
 * Le Gare (1902);
 * Faida (1910–1915);
 * Belfagor (1920).

Didactic Music

 * 12 Studies for Viola (Milan, 1919);
 * The Repertoire of the Little Violinist (Milan, 1920);
 * Perpetual Motion on Scale Movements (Milan, 1920).
 * 12 Studies Op. 125 for Viola (Milan, 1929);