Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer.

Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy.

Among his Italian pupils were Sandro Gorli, Roberto Carnevale, Giulio Castagnoli, Ivan Fedele, Luca Mosca, Riccardo Piacentini, Fausto Romitelli, Luc Brewaeys, Pietro Borradori, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Alessandro Solbiati, and Piero Niro; his foreign pupils include Michael Dellaira, Pascal Dusapin, Sylvie Bodorová, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Katia Tiutiunnik, Javier Torres Maldonado, and Juan Trigos.

See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Franco Donatoni.

His music appears on the CD labels Stradivarius, Kairos, and Neos.