Barbara Giuranna facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Barbara Giuranna
Born	Elena Barbara 18 November 1899 (1899-11-18) Palermo, Italy
Died	31 July 1998 (1998-08-01) (aged 98) Rome, Lazio, Italy
Occupation	composer, pianist

Elena Barbara Giuranna (born November 18, 1899 – died July 31, 1998) was a talented Italian musician. She was known as both a pianist and a composer. This means she played the piano and also wrote her own music.

The Life of Barbara Giuranna

Barbara Giuranna was born in Palermo, a city in Italy. She loved music from a young age. She started her musical journey by studying piano at the Palermo Conservatory. A conservatory is a special school for music. Her piano teacher was Guido Alberto Fano.

Later, Barbara decided to study how to write music, which is called composition. She went to the Naples Conservatory for this. Her teachers there were Camillo De Nardis and Antonio Savasta. She continued her composition studies at the Milan Conservatory. There, she learned from Giorgio Federico Ghedini.

After finishing her studies, Barbara Giuranna became a teacher herself. From 1937 to 1970, she taught at the Rome Conservatory. She also worked on editing old music from the 1700s.

Barbara was also a music expert for RAI. This was Italy's main radio and television company. She worked with them in Rome from 1948 to 1956. In 1982, she became a member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. This is a very important music academy in Italy. Barbara Giuranna passed away in Rome.

Her Music and Compositions

Barbara Giuranna wrote many different kinds of music. She composed pieces for the stage, like ballets and operas. She also wrote music for large groups of instruments called orchestras. Some of her music was for smaller groups of instruments, known as chamber ensembles. She even wrote for choirs, violins, and pianos.

Besides writing her own music, Barbara also arranged older pieces. She took music by famous composers from the 1700s, like Paisiello, Vivaldi, and Cimarosa, and adapted them.

Here are some examples of her works:

• La trappola d’oro (The Golden Trap) – This was a ballet she wrote in 1929.
• Jamanto – An opera she composed in 1941. An opera is a play where the story is told mostly through singing.
• Mayerling – Another opera from 1960.
• Hosanna – A choral piece from 1978. Choral music is written for a choir to sing.
• X legio (Tenth Legion) – This was a heroic poem for a large orchestra, written in 1936.
• Concerto for orchestra no.1 – A big piece for orchestra from 1942.
• Sonatina – She wrote a sonatina for piano in 1935 and another for harp in 1941. A sonatina is a short, simple sonata.
• Solo per viola – A piece written just for the viola, a string instrument, in 1982.

Barbara Giuranna's music shows her wide range of talent. She contributed a lot to Italian classical music.