Nicola Samale

Nicola Samale ( born September 14, 1941 in Castelnuovo d'Istria, Italy, today Podgrad, Slovenia), is an Italian composer and conductor.

Career

Nicola Samale studied from 1959 to 1972 at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome Flute ( diploma 1963), conducting ( with Franco Ferrara, Diploma 1970), Composition and Instrumentation ( Diploma 1972). His Dirigierkunst he refined at John Barbirolli (1964 ) and Hermann Scherchen (1965). During his studies he won numerous Conducting competitions in Florence (1st prize ), in particular in 1968, at La Scala ( 2nd prize) 1969 1969 Respighi Competition in Venice ( 1st prize) and in 1970 the competition of the Italian broadcasting company ( RAI) Rome ( 1st prize). Since then Samale is active as a composer and conductor. Guest performances have taken him to almost all Italian orchestras and opera houses, as well as, inter alia, to Bucharest, Frankfurt, Grenoble, Johannesburg, Katowice, Ljubljana, London, Mannheim, Miami, Paris, Pretoria and Stuttgart. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica Abbruzzese ( 1984-1988 ), Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce ( 1993-1994 ) and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Matera (1997 to 2000) and Artistic Director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Catanzaro ( 2003-2004 ). He also worked from 1978 to 1993 as a professor of conducting at the Conservatory of L'Aquila. Nicola Samale lives in Rome.

Creation

Nicola Samale has a number of chamber music, orchestral and vocal works, as well as five operas composed. Together with the composer Giuseppe Mazzuca he has also written several works in teamwork, including film scores and in particular the first version of Ricostruzione the unfinished finale of the Ninth Symphony in D minor by Bruckner ( UA: Radio - Symphonie -Orchester Berlin, Peter Gülke, 1986; CD Recording: Radio - Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Eliahu Inbal, Teldec, 1986). This he later joined John A. Phillips and Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs enhanced performance version (1986 to 2007) made ​​him known to a wide audience. Specific attention should also his completion of Liszt unfinished traditional orchestration of his own piano piece Hexameron ( Variations on the March from Bellini's I Puritani by Vincenzo Bellini; UA: 2001, Catania, Orchestra Teatro MV Bellini, Donato Renzetti ), his completed performing version of the Tenth Symphony Gustav Mahler ( with Giuseppe Mazzuca, UA: 2001, Perugia, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Martin Sieghart ) and its complement of the Scherzo from the " Unfinished" Symphony in B minor, D. 759 by Schubert ( 1988, UA: 1988, Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, Nicola Samale; revised version of Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs 2004; UA: 2004, Sarajevo, Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra, Cohrs ). His composition Miracolo a Milano is part of the soundtrack to the German movie Three by Tom Tykwer.

Catalog of works (selection)

Operas

  • 67 A.D. ( 1994-1997 )
  • Il principe sognatore (1997 to 1999)
  • L ' eroico Yi Sun Sin (2000)
  • Il Castello (1999 to 2002)
  • L'ultima messa (2004 to 2006)

Works for Orchestra

  • Suite No. lirica. 1
  • Racconti Viennesi Caleidoscopio
  • Poema Sinfonico Magica notte by Italian Christmas songs (2004)
  • Cappriccio (clarinet and orchestra)
  • Poema sinfonico Ionica ( band)
  • Elegia e Finale ( String Orchestra )

Works with choir

  • Ave Maria ( soloists, chorus and orchestra)
  • Inno a Padre Pio ( choir and organ)
  • 99 in memoriam ( melologo ) ( reciter and chamber ensemble )
  • Plenum ( choir and chamber orchestra )
  • Scary (chorus a cappella )
  • Miracolo a Milano (chorus a cappella )

Chamber Music

  • Burlesca (harpsichord )
  • Diorama ( Wind Quintet )
  • Divertimento ( Wind Quintet )
  • Hermes (oboe, 4 horns, horn solo, piano and double bass)
  • Il futuro mancato ( reciter and chamber ensemble )
  • Libaeralia (soprano, reciter and chamber ensemble )
  • Pentalfa 14 (flute, Alphorn and percussion )
  • Suite Lirica (No. 2 ) to Italian arias ( wind octet )

Arrangements / orchestrations

  • Anton Bruckner 's Ninth Symphony in D minor, final, complete ( with Giuseppe Mazzuca, Benjamin - Gunnar Cohrs, John A. Phillips, 1985-2007 )
  • Pablo Casals, Inno all Nazioni Unite, Arrangement for Orchestra (1996 )
  • Franz Liszt, Hexameron, complete the Liszt begun, unfinished orchestral version (2001)
  • Franz Liszt Sonata in B minor, arranged for orchestra ( 2007)
  • Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 10, complete ( with Giuseppe Mazzuca, Version 1: 2001 )
  • Franz Schubert, Scherzo for Symphony in B MollD 759 ( Unfinished), instrumentation and complement the trio ( 1988, revised version 2004 with Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs )
Ottorino Respighi Symphony No. 9 (Bruckner) Symphony No. 10 (Mahler) 3 (number) Integrated Authority File
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