Happy Birthday Ottorino Respighi 🍀 Respighi: I pini di Roma - I pini della Via Appia Herbert von Karajan Berliner Philharmoniker Osaka, 18. Okt. 1984 #ottorinorespighi #karajan | Legendary Musicians

#JustReleased -- We're celebrating the birth of Italian composer Ottorino Respighi with his Violin Sonata in B minor, P. 110. The gripping and melancholic character of the sonata can be attributed to the death of his mother in 1916. In April of that year, Respighi wrote: “Now I feel so lonely; it is as if my right arm has been cut off...My beautiful house is so quiet, so sad that I dare not return…My house is destroyed. There is no longer my mother, the good genie of the house waiting for me! No