Tonin Harapi, composer and People’s Artist, was born in Shkodër. He started playing music in elementary school. Completed the “Jordan Misja” Artistic Lyceum and attended higher studies in composition at the “PI Tchaikovsky” Conservatory in Moscow (1959-1961); graduated in 1964 from the State Conservatory of Tirana, where he was also a teacher. He has composed almost in all musical forms and genres, from song to concert, symphonic and operatic music. Among his many works, vocal lyrics and piano miniatures stand out, which are part of the active Albanian pedagogical and concert repertoire and where his creative tendency was consolidated with a sensitive romantic expression. Among other works stand out: Rhapsody No. 1 (1967), Concert No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra (1969), and opera “Awakening” (1975). He passed away in 1992. (In the photo: Tonin Harapi)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 884.
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