Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino ( born April 4, 1947 in Palermo ) is a contemporary Italian composer who is best known for his chamber music and his music theater works.

Biography

Even as a small child Sciarrino dealt with the visual arts, but gradually turned from them, when he discovered his interest in music. In an autobiographical sketch Sciarrino reveals that he is proud to have the music learned as a self-taught and never attended a conservatory. Under the guidance of Antonino Titone he began to compose the age of twelve. Later he studied at Turi Belfiore. 1962 was first listed as part of the Fourth International Week Nuova Musica in Palermo one of his works. The composer himself sees the resulting 1959-1965 works, however, as a result of not yet completed apprenticeship. After leaving school at the grammar school he went first to Rome and later to Milan.

Sciarrino was three years as artistic director of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna and has also taught at the conservatories in Milan, Perugia and Florence, as well as training courses. For several years he has lived in Città di Castello, a small town in Umbria.

Work

In his works, he deals with a lot of overtones, the sound and the " color" of sounds and silence.

However, Sciarrino was known particularly for its anti-naturalistic and mystical looking music theater works. Most works were created in the 1980s for Sciarrino's " theater of the body," the circumstances linked to the performance experience of the sixties.

In his opera Luci mie traditrici, which premiered in 1998, he draws on the tragic life of the Italian composer Carlo Gesualdo.

His opera La porta della legge ( Gateway to the Act), which was premiered on 25 April 2009 in the Wuppertal Opera House, directed by John Weigand, based on the parable Before the Law by Franz Kafka. Sciarrino can repeat the scene of the encounter between the gatekeeper and the inlet seekers and start a third time, with variations in instrumentation, music, text and scene, and gives the work the subtitle quasi un monologo circulare ( as it were a circling monologue ).

Works

  • Sonata for Two Pianos (1966 )
  • Berceuse for orchestra (1967 /69)
  • Quartetto No.. 2 for String Quartet (1967 )
  • Aka aka to I, II, III for soprano and ensemble ( 1968)
  • Prelude for Piano (1969 )
  • Because ... un Divertimento for ensemble (1970 )
  • De o de do for Harpsichord ( 1970)
  • As a da da for Orchestra ( 1970)
  • Musiche for I was colloqui di Aurelio Pes for choir and electronics (1970 )
  • Arabesque for two organs (1971 )
  • De la nuit for piano (1971 )
  • Sonata da camera for ensemble (1971 )
  • Grande Sonata da camera for Orchestra ( 1972)
  • Rondo for flute, strings, two oboes and two horns (1972 )
  • Esercizio for piano (1972 )
  • Romanza for viola d' amore and orchestra (1973 )
  • Variazioni for cello and orchestra (1974 )
  • Due Studi for cello (1974 )
  • Un'immagine di Arpocrate for piano and orchestra with choir ( 1974-79 )
  • Sonatina for Violin and Piano ( 1975)
  • Danse for two violins and viola (1975 )
  • Siciliano for flute and harpsichord (1975 )
  • Trio for Piano, Violin and Cello (1975 )
  • Per Mattia for Violin ( 1975)
  • Toccata for Harpsichord ( 1975)
  • Tre notturni brillanti for viola (1975 )
  • Il paese senz'alba for orchestra ( 1975-76 )
  • Be Capricci for solo violin (1976 )
  • Clair de lune for piano and orchestra (1976 )
  • Etude de concert for piano (1976 )
  • Sonata No.. 1 for piano (1976 )
  • Di Zefiro and Pan, poemetto for 10 wind instruments ( 1976)
  • No Quintettino. 1 for Clarinet and Strings ( 1976)
  • No Quintettino. 2 for Winds (1977 )
  • Dodici canzoni da battello su melody veneziane del '700 ' for voices and ensemble (1977 )
  • Canzone da battello for Voice and Guitar (1977 )
  • Attraverso i cancelli for ensemble (1977 )
  • Il paese senza tramonto for orchestra with soprano (1977 )
  • Fabbrica degli Incantesimi, cycle for flute solo ( 1977-89 ) All'aure in una lontananza (1977 )
  • Hermes ( 1984)
  • Canzona di ringraziamento (1985 )
  • Come vengono prodotti gli Incantesimi (1985 )
  • Fra i testi dedicati all Nubian (1989 )
  • L' orizzonte luminoso di Aton (1989 )
  • Venere che le grazie la fioriscono (1989 )

Works of music theater

  • Amore e Psyche, opera in one act ( 1972-73 ), UA on March 2, 1973 in the Piccola Scala in Milan
  • Aspern. Singspiel in two acts (1978), UA on 8 June 1978 at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence
  • Cailles s sarcophage. Atti per un museo delle ossessioni, opera in three parts ( 1979-80 ), UA on October 17, 1980 at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice
  • Vanitas. Natura morta in an act for mezzo-soprano, cello and piano (1981 ), UA on December 11, 1981 in the Piccola Scala in Milan
  • Lohengrin. Azione invisibile for singers, instruments and voices ( 1982-84 ), the first version of UA on January 15, 1983 in the Piccola Scala in Milan, the second version of UA on September 15, 1984 in Catanzaro
  • Perseo e Andromeda, opera in one act (1990 ), premiere on January 27, 1991 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart
  • Luci mie traditrici, opera in two acts, even under the German title ( text still Italian) The Deadly Flower (1996-98 ), UA on May 17 at the 1998 Schwetzingen Festival
  • Infinito nero, ecstasy in one act for mezzo-soprano and eight instruments ( 1998), UA on April 25 at the 1998 Witten Days for New Chamber Music
  • Terribile e storia del Principe di Venosa spaventosa e della bella Maria, music for a puppet opera (1999), UA on July 24, 1999 at the church of Sant'Agostino in Siena
  • Macbeth. Tre atti senza nome (2002), UA on 6 June 2002 at the Schwetzingen Festival
  • Lohengrin 2 Disegno per un giardino Sonoro (2004), UA on August 21, 2004 in the Ravello Festival
  • Since Gelo Gelo a, 100 scenes with 65 poems, German Title: Cold (2006, libretto by Salvatore Sciarrino after Izukoi Shikibu ), UA on 21 May 2006 at the Schwetzingen Festival
  • La porta della legge - virtually un monologo circolare, German Title: The Gate to the law - as it were a circling monologue, opera in one act (2006-2008, based on Franz Kafka's short story Before the Law ), UA on 20 April 2009 at the Wuppertal Opera House
  • Superflumina, opera in one act (2010), UA 20 May 2011 at the National Theatre Mannheim

Awards

  • I.G.N.M. 1971
  • Taormina 1971
  • Guido Monaco in 1972
  • Cassadó 1974
  • I.G.N.M. and Dallapiccola 1974
  • Anno 1979 Discografico
  • Psacaropoulos 1983
  • Abbiati 1983
  • Premio Italia 1984
  • Antonio Feltrinelli Prize 2003
  • Salzburg Music Prize 2006
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