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. Donatoni died in Milan in 2000. Works References Works cited Further reading Barkl, Michael. 2018. Etwas ruhiger im Ausdruck: Franco Donatoni's Crisis. Beau Bassin: Lambert Academic Publishing. . Luppi, Guillermo. 2016. "Shedding Some Light on Donatoni's Lumen". Perspectives of New Music 54, no. 1 (Winter): 179–195. External links Obituary in The Musical Times A reminiscence of Donatoni by Jeffrey Levine 1927 births 2000 deaths Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Accademia Musicale Chigiana alumni Academic staff of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni Milan Conservatory alumni Musicians from Verona 20th-century classical composers International Rostrum of Composers prize-winners 20th-century Italian composers Twelve-tone and serial composers 20th-century Italian male musicians