Giorgio Battistelli

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Giorgio Battistelli

Giorgio Battistelli (born  April 25, 1953 in Albano Laziale near Rome ) is an Italian avant-garde composer in the field of music theater .

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Battistelli studied composition , music history and piano at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in L'Aquila until 1978 . In addition, he supplemented his training with courses and a. 1975 in Cologne with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel and 1978/79 in Paris with Jean-Pierre Drouet . At the invitation of the German Academic Exchange Service , he spent 1985/86 in Berlin .

From 1993 to 1996 he was artistic director of the Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano , from 1996 to 2002 artistic director of the Orchestra della Toscana . In the same function he worked a. a. at the Music Biennale di Venezia (2004–2007) and the Fondazione Arena di Verona (2006–2007).

Battistelli attracted more attention in 2002 with a musical staging of Ernst Jünger's Auf dem Marmorklippen at the Nationaltheater Mannheim , in which Battistelli also contributed to the libretto . Experimentum Mundi aroused similar interest in 2005, when the musicality of the working world was to be highlighted. The work should be understood as a bridge between the everyday noises of the craftsmen and contemporary music.

In 2020 it was announced that Battistelli would take over the artistic direction of the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento in 2021, succeeding Daniele Spini .

Works (selection)

  • Experimentum Mundi (Rome, 1981)
  • Aphrodite ( Bordeaux , 1983)
  • Linzer Stahloper ( Linz , 1985)
  • Jules Verne ( Strasbourg , 1985)
  • Combattimento di Ettore e Achille (Strasbourg, 1989)
  • Kepler's Dream (Linz, 1990)
  • Ascolto di Rembrandt (Rome, 1991)
  • Teorema ( Munich , 1992)
  • Ms. Frankenstein ( Berlin , 1993)
  • Prova d'Orchestra (Strasbourg, 1995)
  • The Cenci ( London , 1997)
  • The discovery of slowness ( Bremen , 1997)
  • On the marble cliffs ( Mannheim , 2002)
  • Richard III (Düsseldorf, 2005)
  • El otoño del patriarca (Bremen, 2004)
  • Miracolo a Milano ( Reggio nell'Emilia , 2007)
  • The Fashion (Düsseldorf, 2008)
  • Lot ( Hanover , 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Angela De Benedictis:  Battistelli, Giorgio. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 2 (Bagatti - Bizet). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 1999, ISBN 3-7618-1112-8  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
  2. ↑ a b Giorgio Battistelli. In: Ricordi . (English).
  3. ↑ biography. In: www.giorgiobattistelli. 2020 (English).;
  4. ^ Giorgio Battistelli. In: New South Tyrolean daily newspaper . June 25, 2020 .;
personal data
SURNAME Battistelli, Giorgio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Albano Laziale