Previous entries for March 8th may be read here: C. P. E. Bach (2019), Alan Hovhaness (2021), Carlo Gesualdo, Carlo Gesualdo (2022), and Carlo Gesualdo; Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2023)
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Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for having completed Puccini's opera Turandot in 1926.
Finishing a Hat
Alfano’s completion in any form cloys. A surge of bombast sweeps away the memory of Liù’s suicide; Turandot’s transformation is poorly motivated (“hormonal,” as one critic scoffed); and the gaudy, Technicolor reprise of “Nessun dorma” as the curtain falls has neither rhyme nor reason. -- Marion Lignana Rosenberg, "Giving Puccini's Turandot the Finale it Deserves" at www.wqxr.org
Franco Alfano, composer, is not
Remembered for his own score.
He cobbled an ending for Turandot,
And that is all he’s known for.
Though some say his way of resolving the plot
Is something to atone for.
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Bendix Friedrich Zinck (bapt. 8 March 1743 - 23 June 1801 German
instrumentalist and composer.
Gottfried Wilhelm Fink (8 March 1783 – 27 August 1846) was a German composer, music theorist, poet, and clergyman.
Two for One
Today I was on the brink
Of wasting pen and ink
On Bendix Friedrich Zinck
And Gottfried Wilhelm Finck
Because their birthdays sync; –
It’s foolish, don’t you think?
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