Debussy's letters throw light on the selection of the program: Chabrier, Roger-Ducasse, Dukas and “Iberia”, the “Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune” e “Children's Corner” (orchestration A. These letters have no recipient, but perhaps it was Depanis himself or Federigo Bufaletti, a piano teacher in Turin who is said to have been a pupil of Debussy and who was one of the first to spread the music by 'Claude de France' in Turin, although a rather traditionalist one. Two letters by Debussy now in Archivio Storico del Teatro Regio di Torino are published here for the first time. Gatti (then influential music promoter and artistic director), Ettore Desderi (then composer), Andrea Della Corte (then reporter). ![]() The article recreates the preparations for the concert, an event destined to remain in Turin and italian music history, because it influenced young composers and critics who attend it, among them Guido M. ![]() In a wagnerian - at that time - town like Turin, Giuseppe Depanis arranged an orchestral season of modern music and brought to Turin the most famous batons of that time: Safonov, Mengleberg, Kajanus, Elgar and Claude Debussy as well. ![]() In 1911 Turin hosted the Esposizione Internazionale, an International Exhibition of Work and Industry, to commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of the nation's unity.
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