Carlo Jachino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Carlo Jachino

Italian composer

Date of Birth: 03-Feb-1887

Place of Birth: Sanremo, Liguria, Italy

Date of Death: 23-Dec-1971

Profession: composer

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Carlo Jachino

  • Carlo Jachino (1887–1971) was an Italian composer of the 20th century.
  • Born in Sanremo on February 3, 1887, he studied in Leipzig under Hugo Riemann.
  • Jachino's 3-act opera, Giocondo and his King won a national competition in (1922) and was premiered in 1922 at the Dal Verme theater in Milan in 1924.
  • In 1928 his Second Quartet in E minor shared the second prize with Harry Waldo Warner while Béla Bartók and Alfredo Casella shared the first prize at an international chamber music competition in Philadelphia.
  • He was a proponent of dodecaphonic or 12-tone music.
  • He wrote extensively about music, including Instruments of the Orchestra.
  • He taught composition at the conservatories of Parma, Naples and Rome between 1927 and 1950.
  • He was the director of the Naples conservatory from 1950 to 1953, and later director of the National Conservatory of Colombia in Bogotà.
  • Jachino was also inspector of music curriculum for the Italian Ministry of Education.

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