The Russian composer and teacher Rimsky-Korsakov had an unlikely pupil in Ottorino Respighi, who studied composition with Rimsky-Korsakov...

Respighi was a musicologist as well as a composer, and he used the music of the past as inspiration for some of his compositions. The Bi...

Ottorino Respighi  (1879 - 1936) was born in Italy and was a composer, musicologist and conductor. He learned piano and violin from his fa...