Giacomo Manzoni

Giacomo Manzoni ( born September 26, 1932 in Milan ) is an Italian composer and music educator.

Manzoni played in his childhood accordion, later he had piano lessons. From 1948 he was at the Liceo Musicale of Messina student of Gino Contilli, a pioneer of Dodecaphony in Italy. From 1950 to 1954 he studied composition at the Conservatory of Milan, next to German language at the Faculty lingue e letterature straniere the University of Milan. After studying in Tübingen, he received his doctorate in 1955 with a thesis in German language about the role of music in the works of Thomas Mann.

1956 and 1957, Manzoni sat at the Darmstadt Summer Courses deal with serialism. 1960 premiered in Bergamo his opera La sentenza at the Teatro delle News, which was the highlight of his serial work. A freer and expressive central handling of the musical material can be found in the opera Nuclear Death (1965 ), the Claudio Abbado aufführte in the same year at the Teatro alla Scala, and in Ombre: alla memoria di Che Guevara. The third music theatrical work was created in 1975 by Massimiliano Robespierre, in 1977, he composed mass: omaggio a Edgard Varèse.

Based on the novel by Thomas Mann wrote Manzoni between 1984 and 1988 the opera Doctor Faustus, which was premiered in 1989 at the Teatro alla Scala. According to texts by Friedrich Nietzsche was established in 1992 Il deserto cresce, a work for chorus and orchestra. As another choral work he composed in 1997 Moi, Antonin A, after texts by Antonin Artaud. As commissioned by the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI 2002 Oh Europe was for solo voice and orchestra. 2007 Manzoni was awarded the Golden Lion at the Biennale di Venezia Musica.

In addition to his activities as a composer Manzoni was also active as a music teacher always, especially at the Milan Conservatory. Among his students, among others Fabio Vacchi, Adriano Guarnieri, Gilberto Cappelli and Riccardo Nova. From 1958 to 1966 he worked as a critic for the magazine Unità and worked as an editor at the Enciclopedia della Musica by Ricordi. He also emerged as a translator of music-theoretical writings of Arnold Schoenberg and music essays of Theodor W. Adorno.

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  • Milano Musica - Giacomo Manzoni
  • Giacomo Manzoni Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available )
  • Nachschlage.net - Giacomo Manzoni
  • Operissimo - Giacomo Manzoni
  • Operons - Giacomo Manzoni
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