Pick-Mangiagalli, Riccardo

Pick-Mangiagalli, Riccardo, Italian pianist and composer; b. Strakonice, Bohemia, July 10,1882; d. Milan, July 8, 1949. He was of mixed Italian and Bohemian parentage; studied at the Cons. Giuseppe Verdi in Milan with Appiani (piano) and Ferroni (composition). He began his career as a successful concert pianist, but later turned exclusively to composition. In 1936 he succeeded Pizzetti as director of the Cons. Giuseppe Verdi, and held this post until his death.

Works

dramatic: Opera: Basi e Bote (1919–20; Rome, March 3, 1927); Casanova a Venezia (Milan, Jan. 19, 1929; orch. suite as Scene carnevalesche, Milan, Feb. 6, 1931); L’Ospite inatteso (Milan-Turin-Genoa Radio, Oct. 25, 1931); II notturno romantico (Rome, April 25,1936). dance:II salice d’oro, ballet (1911–12; Milan, 1914); Sumitra (1917; Frankfurt am Main, 1922); Mahit, ballet-fable (Milan, March 20, 1923); La Berceuse (San Remo, Feb. 21, 1933); Variazioni coreografiche (San Remo, April 13, 1935). orch.:Sortilegi, symphonic poem for Piano and Orch. (Milan, Dec. 13, 1917); Notturno e rondo fantastico (1914; Milan, May 6, 1919); Humoresque for Piano and Orch. (1916); 2 preludi (Rome, March 1, 1921); 4 poemi (Milan, April 24, 1925); Piccola suite (Milan, June 12,1927); Preludio e fuga (Rome, March 11,1928); Preludio e scherzo sinfonico (Milan, Oct. 22,1938); Piano Concerto (1944). chamber: Violin Sonata; String Quartet (1909); piano pieces. vocal: Songs.

—Nicolas Slonimsky/Laura Kuhn/Dennis McIntire