Elena Barbara Giuranna was an Italian pianist and composer.

Life

Barbara Giuranna was born in Palermo

Palermo

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, Italy

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, and studied piano at the Palermo Conservatory with Guido Alberto Fano

Guido Alberto Fano

Guido Alberto Fano was an Italian pianist and composer. From 1894 he was the favoured pupil of Giuseppe Martucci. From 1922 he was professor of piano at the Milan Conservatory. In 1938 he was removed from this position because of the Italian Fascist racial laws and from 1943 to 1945 was in hiding...

 and composition at the Naples

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 Conservatory with Camillo De Nardis and Antonio Savasta. She continued her education in composition at the Milan

Milan

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 Conservatory with Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Giorgio Federico Ghedini was an Italian composer.-Life:Ghedini was born in Cuneo in 1892. He studied organ, piano and composition in Turin, then graduated in composition in Bologna under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911...

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After completing her studies, Giuranna taught at the Rome

Rome

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 Conservatory from 1937 to 1970 and worked as an editor of 18th-century music. She was a music consultant to RAI

RAI

RAI — Radiotelevisione italiana S.p.A. known until 1954 as Radio Audizioni Italiane, is the Italian state owned public service broadcaster controlled by the Ministry of Economic Development. Rai is the biggest television company in Italy...

 in Rome from 1948 to 1956, and was elected a member of the Accademia di St. Cecilia in 1982. She died in Rome.

Works

Giuranna composed works for stage, orchestra, chamber ensemble, chorus, violin, and piano. Giuranna also published arrangements of 18th-century music including Paisiello, Vivaldi and Cimarosa. Selected works include:

• La trappola d’oro (ballet), 1929
• Jamanto (op, 3, Giuranna), opera 1941
• Mayerling (op, 3, V. Viviani), Naples, S Carlo, 1960
• Hosanna (op, 1, C. Pinelli), Palermo, Massimo, 1978 Choral: 3 cori, male chorus, 1940
• 3 canti alla Vergine, Soprano voice, female chorus, small orchestra, 1949
• Missa sinite parvulos, children’s chorus, harp, organ, 1992
• Notturno, 1923
• Apina rapita dai nani della montagna, suite after A. France, small orchestra, 1924
• Marionette, 1927
• X legio (Poema eroico) 1936
• Toccata, 1937
• Patria 1938
• Concerto for orchestra, 1942
• Episodi, wind, brass, timpani, piano, 1942
• Concerto for orchestra no.2, 1965
• Musica per Olivia, small orchestra, 1970
• Adagio e Allegro da concerto, 9 instruments, 1935
• Sonatina, piano, 1935
• Toccata, piano, 1937
• Sonatina, harp, 1941
• Solo per viola', 1982