Luca Lombardi

Luca Lombardi (born December 24, 1945 in Rome ) is an Italian-Israeli composer.

Life

Luca Lombardi attended the German school in Rome from 1955. After studying piano and composition in Rome , Florence , Vienna , Cologne and Berlin , Luca Lombardi did her doctorate at the University of Rome . From 1966 to 1972 he lived in Cologne and studied there in the Cologne courses for new music with Karlheinz Stockhausen , Henri Pousseur , Mauricio Kagel , Dieter Schnebel , and Frederic Rzewski . He studied with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Cologne University of Music . In 1973 he went to Berlin (East) as a master student of Paul Dessau , where he also made contacts with Heiner Müller , Friedrich Goldmann and the Hanns Eisler group for new music . From 1973 to 1993 he was at the conservatories of Pesaro and Milan as a teacher working for composition, since then he has been working freelance.

Lombardi is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts and the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. Lombardi obtained Israeli citizenship in 2008 ; he lives temporarily in Rome and Tel Aviv . His strong aversion to anti-Semitism is also expressed in his works (e.g. in the string quartet WHY ?, composed for Robert Schumann's 200th birthday). He speaks and composes in various languages ​​such as Italian, German, Hebrew and English, and is currently working on his fifth opera, A woman flees from a message based on a novel by David Grossman .

Works (selection)

Musical theater

• Fist. Un travestimento (text: Edoardo Sanguineti, based on Goethe)
• Dmitri, or: The artist and power (Libretto: Hans-Klaus Jungheinrich, about Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch )
• Prospero (after William Shakespeare The Tempest )
• Il re nudo (Libretto: Sandro Cappelletto, based on Jewgeni Schwarz and motifs by Hans Christian Andersen )

Orchestral works (also with vocal soloists)

• Atropos for orchestra (1991)
• Aubade. Omaggio a Henze for orchestra (2001)
• Canzone for chamber orchestra (1975)
• Concerto for viola and orchestra (1995)
• Con Faust for orchestra (with choir ad libitum) (1987-90)
• Due canzoni napoletane for voice and orchestra (2000)
• Due ritratti for orchestra (1987-88)
• Framework for two pianos and orchestra (1982–83)
• Italia mia for narrator, mezzo-soprano, bass-baritone and orchestra, texts: Dante, Petrarca, Leopardi, Quasimodo, Pasolini, Violante, Lombardi (2011)
• La notte di San Silvestro for orchestra (1983-84)
• La notte di Valpurga (Walpurgis Night) for orchestra (with choir ad libitum) (1991)
• Lucrezio. Un oratorio materialistico. Parte prima: natura for narrator, soprano, flute and orchestra (1998)
• Lucrezio. Un oratorio materialistico. Parte seconda: amore for narrator, soprano, baritone and 12 instruments (2002)
• Mare for orchestra (2012)
• Mythenasche for soprano, baritone, choir and chamber orchestra (1980–81)
• Nel tuo porto quiete. Un requiem italiano for soprano, bass, choir and orchestra (1985)
• Non requiescat. Musica in memoria di Hanns Eisler for chamber orchestra (1973)

Vocal music (a cappella)

• Alle fronde dei salici for 12 voices (1977)
• Ariel's Songs for two sopranos, mezzo-soprano and alto (2002-03)
• Canto di Eros for five voices (soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor, tenor, bass-baritone) (1986)
• E subito riprende il viaggio for five voices (two sopranos, two tenors, one baritone) (1979-80)
• Giocate al giuoco mio, grassi giganti for children's choir (1992)
• “Hasta que caigan las puertas del odio” for 16 voices (4 SATB each) (1977)
• Madrigale di Tommaso Campanella op.6 for male choir a cappella (1965)

Vocal music with instruments (selection)

• Ophelia Fragments for soprano and piano (1982)
• Senza titolo (due pezzi) for soprano and piano (1972)
• La canzone di Greta for soprano and string quartet (1987), based on the Schubert song "Gretchen am Spinnrade"
• A song for soprano, flute, Bb clarinet and piano (1988), text: Else Lasker-Schüler
• Due canti for baritone and piano (1992)
• Yedid Nefesh. Canti di amore e di assenza for mezzo-soprano and guitar (1994–1996), also with chamber music ensemble

Electronic music

• Analisi for 3 synthesizers (1973)
• Diagonal for 2 transistor radios (1968)
• Nixon for voice and synthesizer (1972)
• Sine (1970)
• Levels (1968-69)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Luca Lombardi. Italian-Israeli composer. (No longer available online.) In: radiobremen.de. October 15, 2010, archived from the original on November 13, 2010 ; accessed on February 18, 2019 . 

Web links

• Luca Lombardi - composer. In: lucalombardi.net. Retrieved February 18, 2019 . 
• Markus Hillenbrand: Klassika: Luca Lombardi (born 1945): Catalog raisonné. In: Klassika.info. Retrieved February 18, 2019 . 
• Luca Lombardi: bars: birthday snapshot photo. Luca Lombardi on his upcoming projects. In: takte-online.de. January 2013, accessed on February 18, 2019 (from Bärenreiter Magazin).