# Arnold Franchetti

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{{Short description|Italian-American composer (1911–1993)}}
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'''Arnold Franchetti''' (1911–1993) was a [composer](/source/composer) born in [Lucca, Italy](/source/Lucca%2C_Italy) who later emigrated to the United States.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news | title=Arnold Franchetti, A Music Professor | date=March 11, 1993 | url  =https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/11/obituaries/arnold-franchetti-a-music-professor.html?pagewanted=1  | work =New York Times | access-date = 2010-03-07 }}</ref>

==Early life==
As a boy, Franchetti studied composition and piano with his father, Baron [Alberto Franchetti](/source/Alberto_Franchetti) (1860–1942).<ref name="harford"/> Arnold Franchetti studied physics at the University of Florence, music at the [Salzburg Mozarteum](/source/Salzburg_Mozarteum), and then moved to Munich from 1937 to 1939, where he studied composition and orchestration with composer [Richard Strauss](/source/Richard_Strauss).<ref name="Willheim">Imanuel Willheim, "Franchetti, Arnold". Oxford Music Online.  Accessed December 23, 2011.</ref> After a brief stint with the Italian army during [World War II](/source/World_War_II),<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/10/obituaries/arnold-franchetti-a-music-professor.html|title=Arnold Franchetti, A Music Professor|date=March 10, 1993|website=[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)}}</ref> Franchetti joined the [anti-Mussolini underground resistance](/source/Italian_Resistance) in the Italian Alps where he helped Allied airmen escape.<ref name="Willheim"/>

==In the USA==
Franchetti emigrated to the US in 1947.<ref name="Willheim"/>  He was befriended by [Aaron Copland](/source/Aaron_Copland), who helped the young immigrant composer gain a professional footing by arranging performances of Franchetti's chamber music in [Boston](/source/Boston), [New York City](/source/New_York_City), [Philadelphia](/source/Philadelphia), and [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.){{citation needed|date=December 2011}} Franchetti took a position at the [Hartt School of Music](/source/Hartt_School_of_Music), [Hartford, Connecticut](/source/Hartford%2C_Connecticut), in 1948,<ref name="harford">{{cite web|title=Arnold Franchetti scores and other material|url=https://archives.hartford.edu/repositories/2/resources/140|website=University of Hartford}}</ref> where he became chair of the theory and composition department, remaining there until his retirement in 1979.<ref name="Willheim"/> Franchetti's composition students have included: [Barbara Kolb](/source/Barbara_Kolb),<ref name="harford"/> Michael Schelle,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.schellemusic.com/2.html|title=Michael Schelle biography|website=Schellemusic.com}}</ref> [Joel Pelletier](/source/Joel_Pelletier), [Robert Beaser](/source/Robert_Beaser), [Martin Bresnick](/source/Martin_Bresnick), [Henry Gwiazda](/source/Henry_Gwiazda), [Norman Dinerstein](/source/Norman_Dinerstein), [Gwynneth Van Anden Walker](/source/Gwyneth_Van_Anden_Walker), others.{{citation needed|date=December 2011}}

During his 45 years in the United States, Franchetti received composition honors and awards from the [Guggenheim Foundation](/source/John_Simon_Guggenheim_Memorial_Foundation), the [National Endowment for the Arts](/source/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts), [National Institute of Arts and Letters](/source/National_Institute_of_Arts_and_Letters), and many other prestigious organizations.<ref name="harford"/>

He died on March 7, 1993, at Middlesex Hospital in [Cromwell, Connecticut](/source/Cromwell%2C_Connecticut).<ref name="NYT"/>

==Compositions==
In his early works, Franchetti experimented with [late Romantic](/source/Romantic_music) and [neoclassical](/source/Neoclassicism) styles, but he then developed what Imanuel Willheim called "a non-serial, 12-note compositional language featuring primarily diatonic motivic material".<ref name="Willheim"/> Franchetti composed music in all genres including orchestral, symphonic, chamber and solo music (including five piano sonatas, significant works that have been analyzed in multiple doctoral dissertations).<ref name="harford"/>

Franchetti composed numerous theatre works including the opera, ''Married Men Go to Hell'' (1974) and the genre-bending ''Dracula 1979''. Another important Franchetti theatrical work is ''Lazarus''<ref name="harford"/> (for narrator and symphonic wind ensemble) based on the book ''[Soul on Ice](/source/Soul_on_Ice_(book))'' by 1960's Black Panther activist [Eldridge Cleaver](/source/Eldridge_Cleaver).<ref>{{cite web|title=Soul on Ice|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100519396|website=Oxford Reference}}</ref>

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