Fabio Vacchi (pronounced "Vahkie") is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna. A composer is a person who writes music. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Bologna (from Latin Bononia, Bulaggna in the local dialect) is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy, between the Po River and the Apennines. ...

In 1974, Vacchi took courses in the United States at Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood, where he learned the value of the compositions of Koussevitzky. In 1976, his Soupirs de Genève for eleven string instruments soloists earned him first place at the Gaudeamus Contest in the Netherlands. The Venice Biennale devoted two monographic concerts to him in 1979 and 1981. According to Arthur Schnitzler, Vacchi's opera Girotondo was performed at the 1982 Mai Musical Florentin, an international festival of lyrical arts. Tanglewood is a music venue located in Lenox and Stockbridge, Massachusetts . ... View of Pump Room, a work by the Hungarian artist Balázs Kicsiny at the Venice Biennale in 2005. ... Arthur Schnitzler Arthur Schnitzler (May 15, 1862 - October 21, 1931) was an Austrian writer and doctor. ...

In 1990, the Teatro Comunale of Bologna performed his Il Viaggio, an opera based on a work of Tonino Guerra. In 1993, Vacchi directed La Station thermale, based on a booklet of Myriam Tanant largely inspired in turn by Carlo Goldoni's Il bagni d'Abano, for the Lyon National Opera, and put it up for wider performance in 1994 and 1995 in the Opéra Comique of Paris and other French theatres.

In December 1995, Vacchi directed an interpretation of Pantomime Faust, a choreographic poem by Heinrich Heine, at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. In December 1998 his opera Les Oiseaux de Passage, based on a booklet of Myriam Tanant, was performed by the Lyon National Opera and Teatro Comunale of Bologna. As of 2000, Vacchi is working on a composition of Il letto della storia, based on a booklet of Franco Marcoaldi, which will be completed in 2003, as well as Teneke, which he plans to create during the 2004-2005 season in combination with the Châtelet Theatre. Vacchi was also charged to complete an unfinished opera of Manuel de Falla, El Fuego Fatuo. Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born as Harry Heine December 13, 1797 – February 17, 1856) was one of the most significant German poets. ... Manuel de Falla y Matheu (November 23, 1876 – November 14, 1946) was a Spanish composer of classical music. ...

Vacchi's instrumental pieces include: Luoghi Immaginari (1987-1992), the cantata Sacer Sanctus for chorus and instruments (1997), and Notturno concertante for guitar and orchestra (1994). Cantata (Italian for a song or story set to music), a vocal composition accompanied by instruments and generally containing more than one movement. ...

In 2001, Vacchi composed music for the film Il mestiere delle armi of Ermanno Olmi. Ermanno Olmi ( born July 24, 1931 ) is a noted italian director. ...