Mario Peragallo

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Mario Peragallo (born March 25, 1910 in Rome , † November 23, 1996 in Rome) was an Italian composer .

Life

Peragallo studied at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome with Alfredo Casellas . His first works were composed in the veristic style. Under the influence of Arnold Schönberg's music, he wrote pieces using the twelve-tone technique from 1945 . From 1950 to 1954 he was artistic director of the Accademia Filarmonica in Rome. From 1960 he was President of the Società Italiana di Musica Contemporanea (SIMC). After a long creative break, he wrote his work Emircal in 1980 in memory of Luigi Dallapiccola , a sequence in twelve episodes for large orchestra and magnetic tape. He has also composed piano concertos , quartets , chorales and motets .

Works

Stage works
title premiere place comment
Ginevra degli Almieri February 13, 1937 Teatro dell'Opera , Rome
Lo stendardo di San Giorgio March 9, 1941 Teatro Carlo Felice , Genoa
La collina November 27, 1947 Venice Scenic madrigal based on Edgar Lee Masters "Spoon River Anthology
La Gita in campagna March 24, 1954 Teatro alla Scala , Milan 1 act in 3 pictures in 35 minutes, libretto by Alberto Moravia
La parrucca dell'imperatore 1959 Spoleto

Printed editions

  • The excursion to the country. Opera in 1 act. German by Karlheinz Gutheim. Universal-Edition, Vienna a. a. 1956, DNB 575630124 .

literature

  • Alfred Baumgartner: Propylaea World of Music - The Composers - A lexicon in five volumes . tape 4 . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-549-07830-7 , pp. 293 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht (Ed.): Meyers Taschenlexikon Musik. Vol. 3, Mannheim 1984, ISBN 3-411-01998-0 .
  2. ^ Mario Peragallo. at: opera.stanford.edu
personal data
SURNAME Peragallo, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1996
Place of death Rome