Giovanna Marini

Giovanna Marini ( born January 19, 1937 in Rome) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, songwriter and music ethnologist. She is considered one of the most important interpreters and researchers in the field of traditional Italian folk music.

  • 3.1 LPs
  • 3.2 CDs

Biography

Giovanna Marini (civil registration as Giovanna Marini in Salviucci ) was born in 1937 into a musical family in Rome. In 1959 she graduated in classical guitar at the conservatory Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome and then perfected her skills with the Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia.

In 1960 she met the filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, the writer Italo Calvino and the musicologist Roberto Leydi, and Alessandro Portelli Diego Carpitella know. She began to deal with the tradition of workers' songs and held them in social history and traveled all over the Italian peninsula, to collect folk songs in various Italian dialects and regional languages.

In 1962 Giovanna Marini in Milan with Fausto Amodei, Gualtiero Bertelli, Gianni Bosio, Caterina Bueno, Giovanna Daffini, Ivan Della Mea, Roberto Leydi, Paolo Pietrangeli, Alessandro Portelli and the ensemble Duo di Piadena and Pastori di Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano Orgosolo the ensemble, whose aim was to rediscover the tradition of Italian workers song and spread. From the Sardinian poet Peppino Marotto she learned the art of improvised folk tale.

Giovanna Marini was one of the main staff of the Istituto Ernesto de Martino founded in 1966 in the Tuscan town of Sesto Fiorentino northwest of Florence, which had taken on the task of spreading the knowledge of the proletarian folk culture. She drew there on a variety of their rediscovered folk songs from memory using a grading system developed by her and cataloged them.

1966 organized by the Italian playwright, director, narrator and actor Dario Fo in Milan, the Folk Song Festival Ci ragiono e canto, in which not only Giovanna Marini Rosa Balistreri, Caterina Bueno, Maria Teresa Bulciolu, Ciccio Busacca, Giovanna Daffini, Enzo Del Re, Ivan della Mea and the groups Padano di Piadena and Coro del Galletto di Gallura occurred. The festival was held in 1969 and 1973 two more times.

The Quartetto Vocale was founded in 1976 in order to even polyphonic interpret some of Giovanna Marini polyphonic composed pieces, which she had been alone sung to the guitar, can. Originally, the group consisted of eleven contributors. Today, the ensemble of Giovanna Marini, Patrizia Nasini (from 1981), Patrizia Bovi (from 1990) and Francesca Breschi is. For the Quartetto Vocale among other cantatas Correvano coi carri (1977 ), Sibemolle (1998) and Cantata del secolo Breve created ( 2000). The latter was inspired by the historical work Eric Hobsbawm and was performed in 2001 at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne.

On the occasion of the bicentennial of the French Revolution of 1989, set to music Giovanna Marini, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

From 1989 she taught Applied Ethnomusicology at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio ( SPMT ) in Rome's Testaccio. From 1991 to 2000, she also held a chair of ethnomusicology at the University of Paris VIII Vincennes -Saint Denis. With her students she undertook study trips through Italy to transcribe oral tradition traditional songs on the occasion of secular and religious festivals.

2002 Giovanna Marini was the gutverkaufte album Il fischio del vapore, on which she sings Italian folk songs together with the Italian singer-songwriter Francesco De Gregori, known to a wide audience. In 2004, she set to music Oscar Wilde's Ballad of the penitentiary in Reading and De Profundis. In 2005 she wrote the music for Pier Paolo Pasolini's poems from the band Le ceneri di Gramsci (1957 ) for the Festival di Musica Contemporanea Angelica.

Giovanna Marini teaches today at the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio ( SPMT ) in Rome.

Works

Ballads

Oratorios, operas and symphonic poems

Work for the theater

Music for films

Discography

LPs

  • Lu Picurare
  • La disispirata
  • Bella Ciao
  • Ci ragiono e canto
  • Chiesa Chiesa
  • Lunga vita allo spettacolo e Viva Voltaire e Montesquieu
  • La Nave La e Creatora
  • La Vivazione dischi
  • Controcanale 70
  • L' eroe
  • I treni by Reggio Calabria
  • La grande madre impazzita
  • Correvano coi carri
  • Cantate de tous les jours
  • Le cadeau de l' empereur
  • Pour Pier Paolo
  • Requiem

CDs

  • Giovanna Marini
  • Troyennes
  • Cantate profane.
  • La vie au- dessus et au dessous de mille mètres
  • Départs
  • Oresteia
  • Musiche di scena
  • Sibemolle
  • Requiem
  • Le chant de la terre ( Quartetto Giovanna Marini and Micrologus, Opus 111)
  • Fogli volanti (collected workers' struggle songs by Giovanna Marini and for chapel and choir arranged)
  • Il fischio del vapore (Francesco De Gregori e Giovanna Marini )
  • Buongiorno e buonasera
  • Passioni
  • Antologia - Giovanna Marini
  • La ballata del carcere Reading di di Oscar Wilde ( with Umberto Orsini and Giovanna Marini )

Printed publications

  • Italia quanto was lunga. Mazzotta, Milan 1974.
  • Modes Urbani e modi contadini. 1976, self-published.
  • La grande madre impazzita. Napoleone, Rome 1979.
  • Cantata profana. Sapere 2000, 1990.
  • Modes di tradizione oral. Arpege, Paris 1997.
  • Concerto by Giacomo Leopardi. Ed. Mus. Ut Orpheus, Bologna 1998.
  • Sibemolle. , 1999, self-published.
  • Il canto della terra. with Opus 111, Paris 1999.
  • Una mattina mi son svegliata. Rizzoli 2004.
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