Credits:

Escher, R.

Description:

Sinigaglia was born in Turin, Italy. He is a unique figure, known as a composer and mountaineer. As a young man, Sinigaglia spent his holidays in the hills of Piedmont, where he not only found creative inspiration but also became so absorbed in mountaineering that he compiled a list of trails in the Dolomiti Alps, a mountain range in northeastern Italy. As a composer, he had published several works since his days at the Conservatoire, but in 1900 he met Dvořák in Prague, and the following year he began arranging folk songs. In the 1900s, he wrote a series of "Variations" on a theme by Brahms, to whom he had been devoted since his youth, and two string quartets with flowing melodies reminiscent of Brahms. Although Sinigaglia, who was of Jewish descent, was oppressed by Nazi Germany and tragically died, his works boast the fresh beauty of the mountains he loved so much. Naxos Japan