Oreste Ravanello
1871 — 1938
Oreste Ravanello was an Italian composer and organist.
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Oreste Ravanello was an excellent Italian organist and composer, whose career was deeply rooted in the musical institutions of Venice and Padua, according to The New Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians (1924). He received his training from Agostini, Girardi, and the Liceo Marcello in Venice. His early professional life saw him rise through the ranks at Venice’s famed St. Mark’s Basilica, serving as second organist from 1893 and then as first organist from 1895. Ravanello then moved to Padua, a city with a famous university and the noted church of S. Antonio, where he became maestro at S. Antonio in 1898, a position he held until 1902, as recorded in the historical notes on Padua. He also taught at the Liceo Marcello from 1902 and, from 1914, succeeded C. Pollini as director of the municipal Istituto Musicale in Padua. His extensive compositional output included about 25 masses, two Requiems, many motets, two cantatas, and various instrumental pieces, alongside methods for organ and harmonium, and a work on Gregorian chant rhythm. He also edited a collection of organ works for church use.