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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Franco Donatoni
Person · male · Italy · Verona · born 1927 · died 2000 · recording since 1986
Italian composer (1927–2000)
Also known as 弗兰科·多纳托尼
Timeline
13 events▣ Album 10◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1† Death 1
1920s
1980s
· Debut release
Debut release: Franco Donatoni
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
· Album
Album: Various Works - Spiri • Fili • De Près • Refrain • Etwas Ruhiger Im Ausdruck
Album
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1990s
· Album
Album: Lumen / De près / L'ultima sera / Fili / Le Ruisseau sur l'escalier / Feria / Still
Album
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2000s
· Album
Album: Donatoni: Darkness / Omar / Mari / Mari II / Bok / Clair / Molino: Earth and Heart Dances
Album
source: musicbrainz
2010s
Biography
English biography158 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373830109
Biography
Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.
Biography
Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory and, from 1948, at the Bologna Conservatory.
At least three generations of composers studied with Donatoni. Among his Italian pupils were Sandro Gorli, Roberto Carnevale, Giulio Castagnoli, Ivan Fedele, Luca Mosca, Riccardo Piacentini, Fausto Romitelli, Luc Brewaeys, Pietro Borradori, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Alessandro Solbiati, and Piero Niro; his foreign pupils include Michael Dellaira, Pascal Dusapin, Sylvie Bodorová, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Katia Tiutiunnik, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Juan Trigos. See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Franco Donatoni.
Donatoni died in Milan in 2000.
His music appears on the CD labels Stradivarius, Kairos, and Neos.
Works cited
Osmond-Smith, David. 2001. "Donatoni, Franco". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 10 | 91.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 14 | 33.6th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (11 release groups · 10 studio albums)
Albums · 10
1986 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:02:00
1Spiri10:312Eco10:303Ombra: 15:314Ombra: 23:575Diario18:246Lame: 15:477Lame: 27:20Various Works - Spiri • Fili • De Près • Refrain • Etwas Ruhiger Im Ausdruck
1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 47:01
1Spiri9:202Fili11:303De Près4:394Etwas Ruhiger Im Ausdruck11:325Refrain10:00Alamari / Flag / Nidi / Toy / Ave
1989 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 51:17
1Alamari11:102Flag10:023Nidi9:034Toy12:415Ave8:21Lumen / De près / L'ultima sera / Fili / Le Ruisseau sur l'escalier / Feria / Still
1991 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:13:56
1Lumen4:492De près4:083L'ultima sera20:054Fili12:585Le Ruisseau sur l'escalier13:416Feria12:537Still5:221997 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 54:11
1Refrain III4:402Etwas ruhiger im Ausdruck14:123Lumen5:184For Grilly6:055Spiri10:146Le Ruisseau sur l'escalier13:42In cauda / Portrait / Duo pour Bruno
1999 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:11:36
1In cauda: I8:032In cauda: II13:153In cauda: III13:234Portrait18:485Duo pour Bruno18:07Donatoni: Darkness / Omar / Mari / Mari II / Bok / Clair / Molino: Earth and Heart Dances
2000 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 1:11:19
1Darkness11:352Omar: I5:463Omar: II9:344Mari: I2:365Mari: II3:556Mari II5:097Bok1:448Clair: I4:279Clair: II4:1910Earth and Heart Dances: I6:1811Earth and Heart Dances: II6:2812Earth and Heart Dances: III2:3313Earth and Heart Dances: IV6:552010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 6 tracks · 59:49
1Hot15:062Flag11:053Tema18:124Luci: I2:565Luci: II2:176Rasch II10:132017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 55:30
1Abyss18:022Souvenir (Kammersymphonie, op. 18)14:223Puppenspiel III8:214ORTS (Souvenir n. 2)14:452017 · studio album
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Tracklist · 10 tracks · 49:09
1Marches: I.6:012Marches: II.4:433Nidi: I4:354Nidi: II.3:475Clair: I.4:016Clair: II.3:287Small8:158Estratto1:009Secondo estratto10:2910Quarto estratto2:50
Broadcast · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | 2008-04-02: Muziekgebouw aan het IJ, Amsterdam, NetherlandsSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 5 tracks · 53:481Spiri for 10 instruments8:55 2Chantal for solo harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet11:58 3Flans for colorature soprano and 9 instruments6:16 4Refrain for 8 instruments10:06 5Tema for 12 instruments16:33 | Live | — |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Franco Donatoni head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 18 | 78.1th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 10 | 91.1th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 14 | 33.6th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Franco_Donatoni.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/de91c33e-1154-4f46-97a6-e6781e8ea9acdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/de91c33e-1154-4f46-97a6-e6781e8ea9accore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550236genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q550236seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Donatonibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco_Donatoni
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- List of composers by name
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Image: Egon Schrøder · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q550236 · MusicBrainz: de91c33e-1154-4f46-97a6-e6781e8ea9ac
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