Leone Sinigaglia

Leone Sinigaglia (14 August 1868 – 16 May 1944) was an Italian composer and mountaineer. Biography Born in Turin in 1868 to upper-middle-class Jewish parents, Sinigaglia studied music at its conservatory of music with Giovanni Bolzoni. Sinigaglia knew the leading figures of thought, arts and science in the city, such as Galileo Ferraris, Cesare Lombroso, and Leonardo Bistolfi. A lover of literature and mountaineering from an early age, the young Sinigaglia spent many holidays in or near Cavoretto, just outside the city, which would provide him with much inspiration. Among the works composed in these years are the Romanza opus 3 for horn and string quartet. This has been recorded in an arrangement for horn and string orchestra. In 1888 Sinigaglia began to travel: after spells in several European cities, he lived from 1894 in Vienna, where he associated with Johannes Brahms from whom he developed a taste for so-called absolute music, studying with Eusebius Mandyczewski. In these years, he wrote several Lieder and the Concerto for violin and orchestra, opus 20. From 1900 he worked in Prague with Antonín Dvořák (whom he possibly met through his friendship with the Bohemian Quartet in V