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Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day,[1] his works include Quaderno di strada (2003) and La porta della legge (2006–08).[2]

Biography

A native of Palermo, the young Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a composer. After his classical studies and a few years of university in his home city, in 1969 he moved to Rome, where he attended Franco Evangelisti's course in electronic music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia.[3]

In 1977, Sciarrino moved from Rome to Milan, where he taught at the conservatory until 1982. By this time his compositional career had expanded to the point where he could withdraw from teaching, and he moved to Città di Castello, in Umbria, where he has lived ever since. He nevertheless has continued to teach occasionally in Florence and Bologna, as well as in Città di Castello. Some of his notable students include Francesco Filidei, Lucia Ronchetti, David Monacchi, and Maurizio Pisati. See: List of music students by teacher: R to S#Salvatore Sciarrino.

He has composed for: Teatro alla Scala, RAI, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Fondazione Arena di Verona, Stuttgart State Opera, Brussels La Monnaie, Frankfurt Opera Theatre, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, London Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Suntory Hall. He has also composed for the following festivals: Schwetzinger Festspiele, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Witten, Salzburg, New York, Wien Modern, Wiener Festwochen, Berliner Festspiele Musik, Holland Festival, Alborough, Festival d'Automne (Paris), Ultima (Oslo).

His music was published by Ricordi from 1969 to 2004. Since 2005, Rai Trade has had exclusive rights for Sciarrino’s works.^{[citation needed]}

Sciarrino’s discography is extensive: there are over 70 CDs, many of which have won awards.

Apart from being author of most of the librettos of his operas, Sciarrino has written many articles, essays and texts, some of which have been chosen and collected in Carte da suono, CIDIM – Novecento, 2001. His book about musical form: Le figure della musica da Beethoven a oggi (Ricordi 1998) is particularly important.

From 1978 to 1980, he was Artistic Director of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Academic of Santa Cecilia (Roma), Academic of Fine Arts of Bavaria and Academic of the Arts (Berlin).

He has been teaching at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana since 2013; beforehand he held the composition class in 1983 and in 2002.

Sciarrino has won many awards, among the most recent are: Prince Pierre de Monaco (2003) and the prestigious Feltrinelli Prize (2003). He is also the first prizewinner of the newly created Salzburg Music Prize (2006), an International composition prize established by Salzburg. He received the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Contemporary Music for renewing the possibilities of vocal and instrumental music and for the singularity of his sound materials.[4] Sciarrino has developed a new and unique syntax and a manner of combining extreme synthesis with richness of detail.[5]

Musical style

Pietro Misuraca, in one of the most recent books on the composer's music (2018), wrote:

A stranger (also for reasons of age) to the pointillist-structuralist phase of the New Music, Sciarrino, along with Iannis Xenakis and György Ligeti, was among the voices most lucidly critical of Darmstadt's orthodoxy, its contradictions and its limits, animated by that concrete desire for "sound" that some other composers were developing in those years.[6]

Works

Sciarrino's works include a large body of chamber music, including many pieces for wind instruments, five piano sonatas, and several operas or theatrical works: Da gelo a gelo, Infinito nero, Macbeth (2002), Perseo ed Andromeda, Lohengrin, and Luci mie traditrici.

He published with Casa Ricordi from 1969 to 2004;[4] from the following year, the exclusive rights to Sciarrino's works passed to Rai Trade. His discography is very wide-ranging, including more than eighty titles, published by international labels and repeatedly mentioned and rewarded.[7]

References

Sources

• Osmond-Smith, David. 2001. "Sciarrino, Salvatore". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.

Further reading

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Salvatore Sciarrino.

• Official website
• "Salvatore Sciarrino biography" (in French and English). IRCAM.
• Salvatore Sciarrino, Accademia Musicale Chigiana

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[de] Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino (* 4. April 1947 in Palermo) ist ein zeitgenössischer italienischer Komponist, der besonders für seine Kammermusik und seine Musiktheaterwerke bekannt ist. Er zählt zu den meistaufgeführten Komponisten der Gegenwart.[1]

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- [en] Salvatore Sciarrino

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[es] Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino (Palermo, 4 de abril de 1947) es un compositor italiano de música académica contemporánea. Su trabajo es vanguardista y es conocido por el uso de sonoridades aisladas, técnicas ampliadas, silencios frecuentes, y por el uso de la cita irónica o por la confrontación con música anterior.

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[ru] Шаррино, Сальваторе

Сальваторе Шарри́но (итал. Salvatore Sciarrino; 4 апреля 1947, Палермо) — итальянский композитор.

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