Claudio Pompili completed a corso di perfezionement with Franco Donatoni in 1985 at the Accdemic Pescarese, Pescara, Italy. This is a selected list of pages mainly in English.

Franco Donatoni (right) and Claudio Pompili (left). The photo was taken whilst Donatoni was composer-in-residence at University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales, Australia in September 1991. He was subsequently diagnosed with diabetes and received treatment in The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. He later wrote an opera, "Alfred, Alfred", on his experiences there.

Franco Donatoni was born in Verona in 1927 and died 17 August 2000 in Milan.

Publishers' Pages

• BMG Ricordi

  Home Page of Casa Ricordi http://www.ricordi.com/ also Casa Ricordi - BMG Ricordi s.p.a. http://www.bmgricordi.it/

• Schott's Donatoni page:

  http://ww.schott-music.com/composer/donatoni.htm

   

Franco Donatoni Pages

Obituaries

• Obitury in Musical Times
  • http://www.musicaltimes.co.uk/archive/0004/donatoni.html
• Obitury in the Guardian, UK
  • www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0%2C3858%2C4055517%2C00.html
• Obitury in the Gramophone, UK
  • http://www.gramofile.co.uk/obituaries.asp

Others

• Franco Donatoni's database entry at IRCAM in French. Excellent resource biography and very comprehensive scores catalog.

  http://mac-texier.ircam.fr/textes/c00000028/index.html

• Renzo Cresti's page on Donatoni (in Italian) provides a good summary of Donatoni's achievements and aesthetic, and includes a brief but important bibliography of Donatoni's writings.

  http://www.orfeonellarete.it/contemporanea/donatoni.htm

• A REMEMBRANCE OF FRANCO DONATONI

  http://www.tscont.trieste.it/pag21-e.htm

• Biographie Franco Donatoni - new art saxophone quartet

  http://www.new-art-sax.com/biographien/bio_don.htm

• Franco Donatoni

  http://www.gaudeamus.nl/biobak/d/donatonf.htm

• Franco Donatoni

  http://www.eyeneer.com/CCM/Composers/Donatoni/index.html

• Franco Donatoni (1927-2000)

  http://www.bisbigliando.com/donatoni.htm

• AMIC database of Donatoni's compositons

  http://www.amic.it/banca-dati/000126.html