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RENATO DE BARBIERI (GENOA, 5 NOVEMBER, 1920 – TRENTO, 30 OCTOBER, 1991)

 

 

 

 

Son of the famous violin maker Paolo De Barbieri, as a child he met in his father’s workshop the greatest violinists of the century including Fritz Kreisler, Jascha Heifetz and Bronislaw Huberman Archived 21 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine. as well as Mischa Elman and Váša Příhoda with whom he perfected his skills. Having begun studying the violin at the age of five, at eight he performed Mozart ‘s concerto in G major with the orchestra. He won numerous violin competitions and the prize of the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, beginning his concert career. At a very young age, after having participated in the celebrations for the centenary of the death of Nicolò Paganini, he was invited in 1945 to perform, with the Guarneri del Gesù ” Cannone (violin) ” which belonged to the great Genoese violinist, in a concert broadcast throughout the world. With the same instrument he shot a short film in 1947 entitled La Voce di Paganini which won him first prize at the Venice International Film Festival for its musical performance.

In 1958 in Brussels he was appointed member of the Honorary Committee for the celebrations of the centenary of Ysaye. In 1965 he performed the Beethoven Concerto on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Mozarteum in Salzburg, and on 22 November of the same year he married Maria ” Mariangiola ” Firpo in Genoa. On 5 October 1966 his son Enrico was born.

In 1971 he gave a concert with Paganini ‘s violin at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, achieving a triumphal success: it was the first time that the famous Guarneri was played abroad after Paganini ‘s death. He also composed the soundtrack for the film Nicolò Paganini (1973). In 1980 he performed the 24 Paganini Capricci in their autograph version in Switzerland, once again making the voice of the precious ” Cannone (violin) ” resonate, with which in 1982 he inaugurated the celebrations held in Genoa for the bicentenary of Paganini ‘s birth.

Music critics include him in the small circle of those concert performers who have given their own physiognomy to the violin style of the twentieth century. “Fronda d’oro” 1961, “Premio Eur” 1974, “Premio Regionale Ligure” 1975, “Premio Internazionale per il concertismo” 1977, in 1981 he was awarded the “San Giorgio d’argento”, and again in Rome, in Campidoglio, in May 1982, the “Violino d’oro”, on the occasion of the bicentenary of Paganini’s birth. Again in 1982 and again in the capital the ” David di Michelangelo ” Award; in 1983, in Milan, the “Premio Meneghino”. In the same year he was awarded the “Fieschi d’oro” Award and in 1986 the International “Guido Monaco-Apollo Musagete” Award in Talla (Arezzo). Memorable is his performance in honor of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, on the occasion of her visit to Genoa in 1980. In December 1985 he received the Rotary International Honorary Plaque for the Year of Music. In 1987 Raitre dedicated to him the biography “Renato De Barbieri: a life for the violin” commissioned by Arnaldo Bagnasco and directed by Bruno Ferracciolo. In 1988 he was awarded the European Gold Medal for concert performance and conferred Honorary Citizenship of Mezzolombardo (Trento), where in 1983 he had founded the international summer music courses. In 1990, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Paganini’s death, he was appointed Honorary President of the International Violin Competition ” Premio Paganini “. Recently, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his artistic career, the Mayor of Genoa awarded him the Grifo d’Oro , the highest recognition of the city in memory of the seal of the ancient Republic. A member of the jury of the most important international violin competitions, Renato De Barbieri, during his career, has been awarded numerous and prestigious honours, both Italian and foreign, including that of Knight of the Grand Cross [ 2 ] of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic , the Gold Medal for deserving people in education, culture and art and the Cross of Honour for art and science awarded to him by the President of the Republic of Austria .

At the suggestion of the Mayor of Genoa, he was buried in the Pantheon of the Staglieno Cemetery (Genoa), where he rests next to Camillo Sivori, Nino Bixio and other illustrious Genoese. In 2011, the Municipality of Mezzocorona (Trento), a Rotalian village to which he was very attached and where he stayed for long periods, named the urban park adjacent to the Town Hall after him. In the same year, the City of Genoa decided to dedicate the stretch between Via Roma and Galleria Mazzini to its illustrious fellow citizen. In 2013, at the suggestion of the violist and violinist Paolo Turri, the Orchestra Giovanile Trentina, directed by Andrea Fuoli, dedicated a national competition for violin and strings to the great violinist, aimed at young people and held in Mezzocorona, to honor in an even more active and special way the memory of the great maestro De Barbieri, also nicknamed the ‘Paganini’ of the 20th century. Finally in 2014, the Municipality of Mezzolombardo (Trento) dedicated the rehearsal room of the Musical Complex to him, in the new Cultural Centre “La Corte”.

 

 

TRACKLIST

 

 

Renato De Barbieri, Tullio Macoggi – Prokofief / Saint-Saëns / Paganini – Sonata Op.80 / Introduzione E Rondò Capriccioso Op. 28 / Le Streghe Op.8

Label: La Voce Del Padrone – QCLP 12021

Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono

Country: Italy

Released: Jan 24, 1956

Genre: Classical

Style: Romantic

Sonata Op.80 N.1 Per Violino E Pianoforte

Adapted By [Rev.] – Szigeti

Composed By – Sergei Prokofief

A1 Andante Assai

A2 Allegro Brusco

A3 Andante Allegrissimo

B1 Introduzione E Rondò Capriccioso Op. 28 Per Violino E Pianoforte

Composed By – C. Saint-Saëns

B2 Le Streghe, Op.8

Adapted By [Rev.] – R. De Barbieri

Composed By – Nicolò Paganini

Artwork – Bruno Munari

Piano – Tullio Macoggi

Sleeve Notes – Luigi Pestalozza

Violin – Renato De Barbieri

Rights Society: BIEM

 

Renato de Barbieri, Tullio Macoggi – Recital

Label: His Master’s Voice – HCLP 119

Format: Vinyl, LP, Mono

Country: Netherlands

Released: 1957

Genre: Classical

A1 Hora Staccato

Composed By – Grigoras Dinicu

A2 Siciliana

Composed By – M T Paradisi

A3 Guitarre Op. 45, No. 2

Composed By – Pablo de Sarasate

A4 Alt Wien

Composed By – Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco

A5 Tzigane

Composed By – Maurice Ravel

B1 Perpetuum Mobile

Composed By – Ottokar Nováček

B2 Romanza

Composed By– Robert Schumann

B3 La Capricieuse

Composed By – Sir Edward Elgar

B4 Melodia Ebraica Op. 33

Composed By – Joseph Achron

B5 Polonaise Op. 4

Composed By – Henryk Wieniawski

Piano – Tullio Macoggi

Violin – Renato De Barbieri

Contemporary Dutch version of Italian QCLP 12023. “Renato” consequently misspelled as “Renate” on front & back cover.

Matrix / Runout: 2XBA.343.I 30.8.956

Matrix / Runout: 2XBA.344.III 24.1.957