Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero (born November 17, 1951 in Turin ) is an Italian contemporary composer , librettist , author and book editor. He has been composing since his early youth and has written over a hundred compositions to date, including twelve operas, three ballets, numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works. His musical language is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility and a neotonal language.

biography

Ferrero studied composition in Turin from 1969 to 1973 at the Conservatory of Music with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri. At Turin University he studied philosophy with Gianni Vattimo and Massimo Mila and received his degree in aesthetics with a thesis on John Cage in 1974.

His early interest in the psychology of perception and psychoacoustics led him to IMEB, the International Institute for Electroacoustic Music in Bourges , where he carried out research on electronic music between 1972 and 1973, to IRCAM in Paris, and in 1974 to music / slide / light / Film gallery in Munich .

Scene from the opera La Conquista , 2005

Lorenzo Ferrero has received commissions from numerous festivals and institutions. His works are performed across Europe and North America. His most famous compositions include the operas Marilyn , La figlia del mago , Salvatore Giuliano , Charlotte Corday , La Conquista and Risorgimento! , the first piano concerto, the triple concerto for violin, violoncello and piano, the suite of six symphonic poems La Nueva España , the song cycle Canzoni d'amore , Parodia , Ostinato , Glamorama Spies , Capriccio for piano and string orchestra, tempi di quartetto for string quartet, and the ballet Franca Florio, regina di Palermo . In 1986 he took part in the Prix ​​Italia with his work La fuga di Foscolo . His music is published by Casa Ricordi Milan.

As artistic director, he managed the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago (1980–1984), the Unione musicale in Turin (1983–1987), the Verona Arena (1991–1994) and the Musica 2000 in Turin. In 1999 he co-founded and coordinated the Festa della Musica , a showcase of classical, jazz and world music in Milan, and four years later he directed the Ravello Festival .

In 2007 Lorenzo Ferrero was appointed to the board and elected Vice-President of SIAE, the Italian association of authors and publishers. In the same year he published Manuale di scrittura musicale , a manual that describes the basic rules of correct and elegant music writing from both an orthographic and a graphic point of view. The manual is aimed at all composers, musicologists, teachers, students and manuscript editors with practical information. In 2008 he translated, edited and published Lo Studio dell'orchestrazione , the Italian edition of Samuel Adler's The Study of Orchestration , a seminal manual.

Lorenzo Ferrero was Professor of Composition at the Milan Conservatory from 1980 to 2016. He teaches at St. Mary College of Maryland and at LUISS Business School, a department of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali in Rome. In addition, as a member of the Italian National Union of Composers, Librettists and Authors, he co-founded the ECSA, the European Association of Composers and Songwriters. From 2011 to 2017 he was chairman of the CIAM, the International Council of Music Authors. He is currently Honorary President of CIAM.

He has been featured in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "the most successful opera composer of his generation in Italy" and in The New Penguin Opera Guide as "a major exponent of the neotonal tendencies shared by a number of Italian composers of his generation and who is a successful character for the narrative music theater, with which a wider audience should be reached than from the heirs of the modernist tradition. "

Works

In addition to the original works listed below, Lorenzo Ferrero completed the orchestration of the third version of Giacomo Puccini's opera La rondine , which premiered at the Teatro Regio di Torino on March 22, 1994. With a group of six other Italian composers he wrote the Requiem per le vittime della mafia , a composition for soloists, choir and orchestra based on an Italian text by Vincenzo Consolo . The Requiem premiered in Palermo Cathedral on March 27, 1993. He also wrote the music for the opening ceremony of the 1997 Alpine World Ski Championships , including the official anthem, backing music for stage productions and a film score. Several videos of his work can be heard on YouTube. The British musicologist David Osmond-Smith described his style as "an unabashed synthesis of classical traditions and pop [...] that never forgets its 19th century predecessors."

Opera

• Rimbaud, ou Le Fils du soleil , Quasi un melodramma in three acts (1978)
• Marilyn , Scene degli anni '50 in two acts (1980)
• La figlia del mago , Giocodramma melodioso in two acts (1981)
• Mare nostro , comic opera in two acts (1985)
• Night , opera in one act (1985)
• Salvatore Giuliano , opera in one act (1986)
• Charlotte Corday , Opera in three acts (1989)
• Le Bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir , Marionette Opera (1989)
• La nascita di Orfeo , Azione musicale in one act (1996)
• La Conquista , opera in two acts (2005)
• Le piccole storie: Ai margini delle guerre , chamber opera in one act (2007)
• Risorgimento! , Opera in one act (2011)

ballet

• Invito a nozze , ballet (1978)
• Lotus Eaters , Ballet (1985)
• Franca Florio, regina di Palermo , Ballet in two acts (2007)

Orchestral music

• Ellipse IV (forest music) , for folk ensemble ad libitum (1977)
• Romanza seconda , for bassoon and strings (1977)
• Arioso , for orchestra and live electronics (1977)
• Arioso II , for large orchestra (1981)
• Balletto , for orchestra (1981)
• My Blues , for string orchestra (1982)
• Theme 44 (ad honorem J. Haydn) , for small orchestra (1982)
• Ombres , for orchestra and live electronics (1984)
• The Miracle , Suite for Orchestra (1985)
• Intermezzo notturno by Mare nostro , for small orchestra (1985)
• Intermezzo "Portella della Ginestra" by Salvatore Giuliano , for orchestra (1986)
• Four Modern Dances , for small orchestra (1990)
• Magic March , for small orchestra (1990)
• Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra (1991)
• Paesaggio con figura , for small orchestra (1994)
• Concerto per violino, violoncello, pianoforte e orchestra (1994–1995)
• Palm Beach Overture , for orchestra (1995)
• Capriccio, for piano and string orchestra (1996)
• Three Baroque Buildings , Concertino for bassoon, trumpet and strings (1997)
• Championship Suite , for large orchestra (1997)
• Storie di neve , music for the opening ceremony of the Alpine World Ski Championships (1997)
• La Nueva España , a suite of six symphonic poems (1992–1999)
  • La ruta de Cortés (1992)
  • La noche triste (1996)
  • Memoria del Fuego (1998)
  • Presagios (1999)
  • El encuentro (1999)
  • La Matanza del Templo Mayor (1999)
• Rastrelli in Saint Petersburg , Concertino for oboe and string orchestra (2000)
• Two Cathedrals in the South , Concertino for trumpet and string orchestra (2001)
• Five Easy Pieces , transcription for orchestra (2002)
• Guarini, the Master , Concertino for violin and strings (2004)
• DEsCH , for oboe, bassoon, piano and orchestra (2006)
• Quattro variazioni su un tema di Banchieri: 2 days. Prima variazione , for organ and orchestra (2008)
• Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra No. 2 (2009)
• Fantasy Suite No. 2 , for violin and orchestra (2009)

Chamber and instrumental music

• Primavera che non vi rincresca , electronic work on tape (1971)
• Ellipse III , for four players / ensembles (1974)
• Siglied , for chamber orchestra (1975)
• Romanza senza parole , for chamber ensemble (1976)
• Adagio cantabile , for chamber ensemble (1977)
• Variazioni sulla notte , for guitar (1980)
• Respiri , for flute and piano (1982)
• Soleils , for harp (1982)
• Ellipse , for flute (1983)
• Onde , for guitar (1983)
• My Rock , versions for piano and big band (1985)
• Empty Stage , for four clarinets and piano (1985)
• My Blues , for flute and piano (1986)
• Passacaglia, for flute, clarinet and string quartet (1986)
• Ostinato , for 6 cellos (1987)
• Parodia , for chamber ensemble (1990)
• Discanto sulla musica sull'acqua di Handel , for flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, cor anglais and percussion (1990)
• Cadenza , for clarinet and marimba (1990)
• Musica per un paesaggio , for small orchestra (1990)
• Movimento americano , for oboe, clarinet, bassoon and string quartet (1992)
• Ostinato , for two cellos and strings (1993)
• Portrait , for string quartet (1994)
• Seven Seconds , for clarinet, violin and piano (1995)
• Shadow Lines , for bass flute and live electronics (1995)
• My Piece of Africa , for violin, viola, cello and double bass (1996)
• Five Easy Pieces , for flute and piano (version of a piano work) (1997)
• Tempi di quartetto , for string quartet (1996–1998)
• Glamorama Spies , for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1999)
• Sonata, for viola and piano (2000)
• Moonlight Sonata , for five percussion instruments (2001)
• Three Baroque Buildings in a Frame , for flute and string quartet (2002)
• Macuilli Mexihcateteouch - Five Aztec Gods , for string quartet (2005)
• Haring at the Exhibition , ambient music (2005)
• Fantasy Suite , for flute, violoncello and piano (2007)
• Freedom Variations , for trumpet and chamber ensemble (2008)
• Tourists and Oracles , for eleven instruments and piano four hands (2008)
• Three Simple Songs , for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2009)
• Venice 1976 (A Parody) , for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2013)
• Country Life (2015) for saxophone and piano
• A Night in Nashville (2015) for saxophone and piano

Piano music

• Aivlys (1977)
• My Rag (1982)
• My Blues (1982)
• My Rock (1983)
• Rock my Tango (1990)
• Five Easy Pieces (1994)
• Seven Portraits of the Same Person (1996)
• Opus 111- Bagatella su Beethoven (2009)

Organ and harpsichord

• Ellipse II , for harpsichord / clavichord (1975)
• A Red Wedding Dress , for organ (1998)

Choral and vocal music

• Fawn , for voice and live synthesizer (1969–1970)
• Immigrati , for voice and live synthesizer (1969–1970)
• Ellipse III , for any four voices / choirs (1974)
• Ghost Tantra , for voice and live synthesizer (1975)
• Missa brevis, for five voices and two live synthesizers (1975)
• Le Néant où l'on ne peut arriver , oratorio for solo voices, mixed choir and orchestra (1976)
• Non parto, non resto , for mixed choir (1987)
• Introito , part of the Requiem per le vittime della mafia for choir and orchestra (1993)
• Night of the Nite , aria from Marilyn for soprano and piano (1979)
• Canzoni d'amore , for voice and chamber ensemble (1985)
• La fuga di Foscolo , for four voices, speaker and small orchestra (1986)
• Poi andrò in America , aria from Salvatore Giuliano for voice and orchestra (1986)
• Ninna-Nanna , for tenor and piano (1986)
• La Conquista , symphonic choir suite (2006)
• Canti polacchi , for female choir and orchestra (2010)
• Senza parole , for mixed choir (2012)

Incidental music

• Nebbia di latte , for flute and live electronics (1987)
• La cena delle beffe , incidental music for Carmelo Bene (1988)
• Maschere , for string quartet, for Le Massere by Carlo Goldoni (1993)
• Lontano dagli occhi , for one actor, four voices and piano quartet (1999)
• Mozart a Recanati , for one actress, one voice, string trio, clarinet and piano (2006)

Film music

• Anemia

Books and book contributions

• Lorenzo Ferrero, Manuale di scrittura musicale , Torino: EDT Srl, 2007. ISBN 978-88-6040-062-8
• Lorenzo Ferrero (ed.), Lo studio dell'orchestrazione , Torino: EDT Srl, 2008. ISBN 978-88-7063-702-1
• Lorenzo Capellini, Nascita di un'opera: Salvatore Giuliano , Bologna: Nuova Alfa Editoriale, 1987. ISBN 88-7779-008-3
• Piero Ostali (ed.), Il Piccolo Marat: Storia e rivoluzione nel melodramma verista. Atti del terzo convegno di studi su Pietro Mascagni , Milan: Casa Musicale Sonzogno, 1990.
• S. Harpner (Ed.), About Musiktheater: Eine Festschrift , Munich: Ricordi, 1992.
• S. Pozzi (ed.), La musica sacra nelle chiese cristiane , Bologna: Alfastudio, 2002.
• P. Donati and E. Pacetti (eds.), C'erano una volta nove oscillatori ... Lo studio di fonologia della Rai di Milano nello sviluppo della nuova musica in Italia , Teche. Rome: RAI Teche; Milano: Scuole civiche di Milano, Fondazione di partecipazione, Accademia internazionale della musica, Istituto di ricerca musicale; Rome: RAI-ERI, 2002. ISBN 88-397-1206-2 .
• P. Maurizi (ed.), Quattordici interviste sul “nuovo teatro musicale” in Italia , Perugia: Morlacchi Editore, 2004. ISBN 88-88778-80-2
• Bálint Ándras Varga (ed.), The composer's courage and the tyranny of taste , Hofheim: Wolke Verlag, 2016. ISBN 978-3955930714
• S. Zurletti (Ed.), Ars nova. Ventuno compositori italiani di oggi raccontano la musica , Roma: Castelvecchi Editore, 2017. ISBN 9788869447747

Discography

year	title	genre	Music label
1991	Lorenzo Ferrero - Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra, Parodia, Ostinato, Canzoni d'amore	Classical music	Nuova Era
1992	Lorenzo Ferrero - Mare nostro	Classical music	Ricordi
1998	Lorenzo Ferrero - Different Views: La ruta de Cortés, La noche triste, Championship Suite, Palm Beach Overture	Classical music	BMG Ricordi
1999	Lorenzo Ferrero - Capriccio per pianoforte e archi, Concerto per violino, violoncello, pianoforte e orchestra, Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra	Classical music	BMG Ricordi
2000	Lorenzo Ferrero - La Nueva España	Classical music	Naxos
2013	Lorenzo Ferrero - Tempi di quartetto	Classical music	Sound logo

year	title	genre	Music label
1972	Musica Elettronica - Computer Music: Immigrati , Fawn	Electronic music	Compagnia Editoriale Pianeta
1972	Les Saisons: Primavera che non vi rincresca	Electronic music	IMEB
1976	Styrian autumn - Ferrero-Neuwirth-Rühm: Le Néant où l'on ne peut arriver	Classical music	ORF
1983	Marco Fumo - Piano in Rag: My Rag	Classical music	Fonit Cetra
1983	Fantasia su Roberto Fabbriciani: Ellipse	Classical music	Philips
1987	Styrian Autumn - Music Protocol 1987: Ostinato	Classical music	ORF
1991	Davide Ficco - Autori Italiani Contemporanei: Onde	Classical music	Oliphant
1994	Flavio Cucchi - Italian Guitar Music: Onde	Classical music	Arc Music
1995	Dominique Visse - Songs for Seven Centuries: Mi palpita il cuore	Classical music	King Records
2002	Sentieri selvaggi - Bad Blood: Glamorama Spies	Classical music	Sensitive records
2003	Saxophone Colors - Italian & French music for saxophone and piano: My Blues	Classical music	Stradivarius
2004	L'arte del funambolo - new Italian music for saxophone & piano: My Blues	Classical music	Stradivarius
2006	Sentieri selvaggi - AC / DC: Glamorama Spies	Classical music	Cantaloupe Music
2009	Ex Novo Ensemble - Ex Novo Ensemble: Three Simple Songs	Classical music	Stradivarius
2011	Duo Alterno - La voce contemporanea in Italia: Canzoni d'amore	Classical music	Stradivarius
2012	Alberto Mesirca - ALBORADA Musica di autori italiani contemporanei: Onde	Classical music	dotGuitar.It
2017	Mimmo Malandra - NOVOSAX Great Composers for Mimmo: Country Life	Classical music	Sterling Records

year	title	genre	Music label
1982	Contemporary music in the Federal Republic of Germany, 1970–1980: glass games (as interpreter)	Electronic music	Harmonia mundi
1986	Josef Anton Riedl - Klangfelder: Klangsynchronie II , reaction to composition for electronic sounds No. 2 , Epiphyt II (as interpreter)	Electronic music	Loft
2009	Josef Anton Riedl - Sound Regions 1951–2007: Mix Fontana Mix , Sound Synchrony I (as interpreter)	Electronic music	Edition RZ
2010	Josef Anton Riedl - perhaps-perhaps-peut-être: glass games (as interpreter)	Electronic music	Neos

year	title	genre	Music label
1995	Christmas in Vienna III: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing , Noël d'autrefois , When A Child is Born , Carol of the Bells , The Twelve Days of Christmas , Kumbayah , and A Very Private Christmas - arranged by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
1997	A Tenors Christmas: A Very Private Christmas - Arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
1997	Plácido Domingo - The Domingo Collection: The Student Prince: I'll walk with God - Adapted by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
1998	The Best of Christmas in Vienna: Noël d'autrefois , When a Child is Born , Carol of the Bells , The Twelve Days of Christmas , Kumbayah - arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
1998	I'll be Home for Christmas: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing , A Very Private Christmas , The Twelve Days of Christmas , Kumbayah - Arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
2000	Christmas All Over The World: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - arranged by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols	Sony Classical
2006	Christmas time with Holger Wemhoff: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing , When a Child is Born - Arrangement by Lorenzo Ferrero	Christmas carols

literature

• Giorgio Bagnoli (Ed.), The La Scala Encyclopedia of the Opera . New York: Simon & Schuster 1993, ISBN 0-671-87042-4
• Zygmunt G. Baransky and Rebecca J. West, The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture , Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-55034-3
• Julian Budden, Puccini: His Life and Works , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-19-517974-9
• Renzo Cresti, Musica presente. Tendenze e compositori di oggi , Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2019, ISBN 978-88-5543-001-2
• Enciclopedia della musica : Ferrero: Marilyn , Turin: UTET, 1996.
• Raymond Fearn, Italian Opera since 1945 , London: Routledge, 1998, ISBN 90-5755-001-6
• Piero Gelli (ed.), Dizionario dell'Opera 2008 : Lorenzo Ferrero , La conquista , Marilyn , Salvatore Giuliano , Milano: Baldini Castoldi Dalai editore, 2007, ISBN 978-88-6073-184-5
• Leo Karl Gerhartz , Opera: Aspects of the genre , Laaber: Laaber-Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-921518-63-6
• Enrico Girardi, Il teatro musicale italiano oggi: La generazione della post-avanguardia , Turin: De Sono-Paravia, 2000. ISBN 88-395-9129-X
• Wilfried Gruhn (Ed.), The Modern and Post-Modern Project: The New Tonality by Lorenzo Ferrero (by Theo Hirsbrunner), Kassel, 1989, ISBN 3-7649-2379-2
• Hans Werner Henze, The English cat: a work diary 1978–1982 , Frankfurt: Fischer Verlag, 1983, ISBN 3-10-032604-0
• Amanda Holden (Ed.), The New Penguin Opera Guide , London: Penguin Books, 2001, ISBN 0-14-051475-9
• Charles Killinger, Culture and Customs of Italy , Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005, ISBN 0-313-32489-1
• Andrea Lanza, Il secondo novecento , Turin: EDT Srl, 1980, ISBN 88-7063-115-X
• Larousse Dictionnaire de la musique : Lorenzo Ferrero, Live electronic music , Paris: Larousse, 2005, ISBN 2-03-575040-7
• Gino Moliterno, Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Italian Culture , London and New York: Routledge, 2000, ISBN 0-415-14584-8
• Joan Peyser (Ed.), The Orchestra: A Collection of 23 Essays on its Origins and Transformations , Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, 2006, ISBN 1-4234-1026-2
• Don Michael Randel (Ed.), The Harvard Dictionary of Music , Harvard University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-674-01163-5
• Marco Russo, Moderno, post-moderno, neo-romanticismo: orientamenti di teatro musicale contemporaneo , Il Verri . Vol. 2, 1988.
• Stanley Sadie (Ed.), The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992-2002, ISBN 0-19-522186-9
• Franziska Sagner:  Ferrero, Lorenzo. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 7 (Franco - Gretry). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2002, ISBN 3-7618-1117-9  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
• Eric Salzman and Thomas Desi , The New Music Theater , Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, ISBN 0-19-509936-2
• Ulrich Schreiber, opera guide for advanced learners , Bärenreiter-Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-7618-1437-2
• Niclo Vitelli, Un bel dì vedremo: Il festival di Giacomo Puccini. Cronaca di un'incompiuta , Firenze Leonardo Edizioni, 2016, ISBN 978-88-6800-040-0

Web links

Commons : Lorenzo Ferrero  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Casa Ricordi catalog
• Casa Ricordi Archives
• Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra on YouTube

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vitelli, Un bel dì vedremo: Il festival di Giacomo Puccini , 2016, pp. 155-66.
2. ^ EDT, Manuale di scrittura musicale .
3. ↑ EDT, Lo studio dell'orchestrazione .
4. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , 1997, Vol. 2, p. 166.
5. ^ The New Penguin Opera Guide , 2001, p. 273.
6. ^ The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , 1997, Vol. 2, p. 167.