Oreste Ravanello was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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 and organist

Pipe organ

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Biography

Oreste Ravanello studied organ

Organ (music)

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 and composition

Musical composition

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 at the Liceo Musicale in Venice before he was appointed organist of the San Marco Cathedral

St Mark's Basilica

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 at the age of seventeen. He also taught at the (now Benedetto Marcello

Benedetto Marcello

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) Conservatory of Music in Venice and, then, became director of Instituto Musicale in Padua (now the "Cesare Pollini" Conservatory of Music).

Activity

He became a well-known recitalist well-known for his improvisation

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s. He was above all remembered for his composition

Musical composition

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s which are especially intended for the church

Christian Church

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: ca. 30 Mass

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es, Te Deum

Te Deum

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s etc. but also numerous works for organ and piano

Piano

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. His language is late romantic and melodious.

Works

• CORALE FANTASIA, OP. 7

• QUATTRO PEZZI FACILI, OP. 12
  • 1. Preludio
  • 2. Pastorale
  • 3. Fughetta dorica
  • 4. Elevazione

• SETTE TRII, OP. 25
  • 1. O crux, ave
  • 2. Qui odit animam suam
  • 3. Lucis Creator optime
  • 4. Corale
  • 5. Corale
  • 6. Corale
  • 7. Larghetto pastorale

• SEI PEZZI, OP. 27
  • 1. Praeludium super Agnus Dei
  • 2. Praeludium super Te Lucis
  • 3. Meditazione super Ave Regina Cœlorum
  • 4. Elevazione o Comunione super Alma Redemptoris
  • 5. Interludium super Salve Regina
  • 6. Postludium super Regina Coeli

• SETTE CORALI, OP. 29
  • 1. O quam metuendus est
  • 2. Adoro Te devote
  • 3. Agnus Dei
  • 4. Stabat Mater
  • 5. Salve Regina
  • 6. Inviolata
  • 7.Te Deum

• QUATTRO PEZZI PER GRAND’ORGANO, OP. 39
  • 1. Preludio romantico
  • 2. Musette – Méditation
  • 3. Elevazione
  • 4. Marcia eucaristica

• TRE PEZZI PER GRAND’ORGANO, OP. 40
  • 1. Prélude gothique
  • 2. Chanson nordique
  • 3. Toccata

• SEI PEZZI PER GRAND’ORGANO, OP. 50
  • 1. Preludio in forma di studio
  • 2. Preghiera
  • 3. Musette
  • 4. Elegia
  • 5. Fughetta
  • 6. Christus resurrexit

• SCENE AL PRESEPIO, Op. 129 (1935), for organ or harmonium
  • 1. I Magi, preludio pastorale
  • 2. Notte di Natale, cantilena
  • 3. Campane all'alba, pastorale

• MYSTICA, OP. 133
  • 1. Noël
  • 2. La Madeleine et le Divin Jardinier
  • 3. Gesù spira sulla croce

External links

• YouTube Giovanni Danda plays Inno di gloria - Christus resurrexit! Op. 50, n°6.