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Azio Corghi (born 9 March 1937 in Cirié, Piedmont) is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli. Corghi held the chair in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and had many famous students, including Silvia Colasanti, Ludovico Einaudi,[1] and Fabio Mengozzi.[2]

In 2005 he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.^{[citation needed]}

Selected operas

• Blimunda (Teatro Lirico, Milan, May 1990)
• Divara – Wasser und Blut (Münster, October 1993)
• Isabella (Pesaro, August 1996)
• Rinaldo & C. (Catania, October 1997)
• Tat'jana (Teatro alla Scala Milan, October 2000)
• Sen'ja (Münster, March 2003)
• Il dissoluto assolto (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 2005)
• Giocasta (Vicenza, August 2008)

Chamber music

• Ricordando te, lontano (1963) for soprano and piano, G. Ungaretti, A. Bertolucci e S. Aleramo
• Stereofonie x 4 (1967) for flute, cello, organo e percussion
• Actus I (1975) for ten wind instruments
• Actus II (1976) for viola and piano
• Intermedi e Canzoni (1986) for solo trombone
• Chiardiluna (1987) flute flauto and guitar
• ...promenade (1989) for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
• animi motus (1994) for string quartet and electronics
• ... ça ira! (1996) piano concert studio
• a 'nsunnari... (1998) for soprano, flute, clarinet, guitar, violin and cello
• Syncopations (2006) for solo violin, a compulsory piece for the Paganini Award
• "Tang'Jok-Her" (2008) for viola alone. dedicated to Anna Serova
• Redobles y Consonancias (2018) for La Soñada (11 strings guitar) dedicated to Christian Lavernier (2018)

Notes and references

Sources

• Azio Corghi page at Ricordi
• Corghi, Azio and Bramani, Lidia, Composizione musicale: colloquio con Azio Corghi, Volume 88 of Enciclopedia d'orientamento, Editoriale Jaca Book, 1995. ISBN 88-16-43088-5
• Fearn, Raymond, Italian Opera Since 1945, Routledge, 1998, p. 42 and passim. ISBN 90-5755-002-4
• Naxos Records, Biography: Corghi, Azio
• Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana, Corghi Maestro Azio, Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana

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Azio Corghi (* 9. März 1937 in Cirié) ist ein italienischer Komponist und Musikpädagoge.

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