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Attilio Brugnoli: Mazurka italienne

1,666 views · Published 3 October 2015 · 3:07 · Indexed 4 November 2026

Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a sophisticated 1905 'Italian mazurka' (a contradiction in terms?) by the Italian composer Attilio Brugnoli (1880–1937).
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The Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist Attilio Brugnoli (1880-1937) was born in Rome, and studied at the Naples conservatory.  He toured Europe as a concert pianist in the early 1900s, and in 1905 beat Bartok to win  a composition competition in Paris (much to Bartok's displeasure).  After this, he had piano teaching posts at various Italian conservatories.  In 1926, he published a treatise on piano playing, which was reissued in the 1960s.  He died suddenly in Bolzano while on an examining trip.  He also produced editions of many works by Chopin and Liszt.  You can read more about Brugnoli's career here: http://tinyurl.com/nzo7ods .

The Mazurka italienne appeared in the same year that Brugnoli wrote a piano concerto, but he seems to have written little apart from the concerto, a violin sonata, and a few songs and piano pieces.

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