Luca Francesconi

Luca Francesconi

Luca Francesconi (born March 17, 1956 in Milan ) is an Italian composer .

Francesconi studied piano and composition with Azio Corghi , Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luciano Berio at the conservatory in his native city . In 1990 he founded the Agon Acustica Informatica Musica , a center for new music, in Milan .

His compositions have been awarded the Kranichstein Music Prize , the Siemens Music Prize (1994), the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize (2018) and the Prix ​​Italia . He taught as a visiting professor at the Rotterdam Conservatory, was composer in residence in Strasbourg in 1995 and is head of the composition department of the Musikhögskolan of Malmö in Sweden.

Works

• Passacaglia for large orchestra, 1982
• Viaggiatore insonne for soprano and five instruments (text by Sandro Penna ), 1983
• Notte for mezzo-soprano and nineteen instruments (text by Sandro Penna), 1983–1984
• Finta-di-nulla for soprano and nineteen instruments (text by Umberto Fiori ), 1985
• Onda sonante for eight instruments, 1985
• Vertige for string orchestra, 1985
• Da capo for nine instruments, 1985–1986
• Encore / Da capo for nine instruments, 1985–1995
• Impulse II for clarinet, violin and piano, 1985, 1995
• Plot in fiction for oboe-english horn and chamber music group, 1986
• Respiro for trombone, 1987
• Trama for saxophone and orchestra, 1987
• Attesa for wind quintet, 1988
• La voce , folk song for soprano and thirteen instruments (text by Umberto Fiori), 1988
• Aeuia for baritone and twelve instruments (text by Jacopone da Todi ), 1989
• Les barricades mystérieuses for flute and orchestra, 1989
• Piccola trama for saxophone and eight instruments, 1989
• Richiami II 1 ° studio sulla memoria , 1989-1992
• Memoria for orchestra, 1990
• Secondo Concerto for oboe and chamber orchestra, 1991
• Funding for five bands, 1991
• Riti neurali 3 ° studio sulla memoria for violin and eight instruments, 1991
• Islands concerto for piano and chamber orchestra, 1992
• Islands concerto for piano and twelve instruments, 1992
• Miniature for sixteen instruments, 1992
• Voci for soprano, violin and electronics (text by Umberto Fiori), 1992
• Aria for two-course wind octet, 1993
• Plot II for saxophone and fifteen instruments, 1993
• Risonanze d'Orfeo , Suite for wind orchestra based on Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo , 1993
• Trama II for clarinet, orchestra and live electronics, 1993 (commissioned by KlangArt Osnabrück)
• Ballata del rovescio del mondo , radio music based on texts by Umberto Fiori, 1994
• Etymo for soprano, electronics and chamber orchestra based on texts by Charles Baudelaire , 1994
• A fuoco 4 ° studio sulla memoria for guitar and ensemble, 1995
• Animus for trombone and live electronics, 1995–1996
• Inquieta limina. Un omaggio a Berio for ensemble and accordion, 1996
• Venti radio song based on texts by Umberto Fiori, 1996–1997
• Siren / Ghosts , oratorio (texts by Umberto Fiori), 1996–1997
• Ballata , Opera, 1996-1999
• Respondit two madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo transcribed for five instruments and electronics, 1997
• Memoria II for orchestra, 1998
• Wanderer for large orchestra, 1998–1999
• Cobalt, scarlet. Two Colors of Dawn for large orchestra, 1999–2000
• Terre del Rimorso , 2000
• Aria Novella , 2001
• Let me Bleed Requiem for Carlo Giuliani , for mixed choir, based on texts by Attilio Bertolucci , 2001
• Buffa Opera based on texts by Stefano Benni , 2002
• Gesualdo Considered as a Murderer , Opera, 2004
• Quartet , opera based on texts by Heiner Müller , 2011
• Trompe-la-mort , opera based on Honoré de Balzac , Opéra de Paris 2017