Marco Stroppa

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Marco Stroppa (born December 8, 1959 in Verona , Italy) is an Italian composer . He deals with both computer music and instrumental compositions in connection with live electronics .

biography

Marco Stroppa first studied piano, composition, choral conducting and electronic music in Italy . Between 1980 and 1984 he worked with the Computer Sound Research Center of the University of Padua . From 1984 to 1986 he stayed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA . Here he studied cognitive psychology , computer science and artificial intelligence .

At the invitation of Pierre Boulez , he moved to Paris in 1982, where he headed the musical research department at IRCAM from 1987 to 1990 . In the summer of the same year he was among the next generation composers at the Salzburg Festival . Stroppa has been teaching at IRCAM since 1984. In 1987 he founded the composition and computer music course at the International Bartók Festival in Szombathely ( Hungary ). After teaching at the Conservatoire National Supérieur in Lyon and Paris, he has been professor of composition at the Stuttgart University of Music since 1999 .

Awards

Selected Works

  • 1982-1984 Traiettoria for piano and computersynthesized tape
  • 1987 Puisazioni
  • 1987–1988 Spirali for string quartet
  • 1993–1994 Hiranyaloka for orchestra
  • 1989–1998 élet… fogytiglan for ensemble
  • 1994–1999 Twilight for Electronics
  • 1996–1999 From Needle's Eye for trombone and ensemble
  • 1991–2002 Miniature estrose for pianoforte d'amore vol. 1 & 2 (14 pieces for piano solo)

Discography

  • Traiettoria on: Computer Music currents 10. Wergo 1992
  • Miniature estrose vol. 1 , Florian Hoelscher, piano, Stradivarius 2008

literature

  • Jean-Noël von der Weid: The music of the 20th century. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main & Leipzig 2001, p. 729. ISBN 3-458-17068-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Giordano Ferrari:  Stroppa, Marco. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 16 (Strata - Villoteau). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2006, ISBN 3-7618-1136-5  ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
personal data
SURNAME Stroppa, Marco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Verona , Italy