Dichtungen aus Musik

After Ottorino Respighi was appointed to a vacant chair at the Conservatorium in Rome in 1913, he composed "Fontane di Roma" (Fountains of Rome), the first of three symphonic poems drawing their programmatic inspiration from the "Eternal City". "Pini di Roma" (Pines of Rome), the second symphonic poem, followed eight years later and bears a clearly more modern musical language.