Nicola Samale

Nicola Samale (born September 14, 1941 in Castelnuovo d'Istria, Italy , today Podgrad , Slovenia ) is an Italian composer and conductor .

Career

From 1959 to 1972 Nicola Samale studied flute (diploma 1963), conducting (with Franco Ferrara , diploma 1970), composition and instrumentation (diploma 1972) at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome . He refined his conducting skills with John Barbirolli (1964) and Hermann Scherchen (1965). While still studying conducting, he won numerous competitions, particularly in Florence in 1968 (1st prize), 1969 at La Scala in Milan (2nd prize), the Respighi competition in Venice in 1969 (1st prize) and the Italian competition in 1970 Rundfunk ( RAI ) Rome (1st prize). Since then Samale has worked as a composer and conductor. Guest performances have taken him to almost all Italian orchestras and opera houses, as well as to Bucharest , Frankfurt am Main , Grenoble , Johannesburg , Katowice , Ljubljana , London , Mannheim , Miami , Paris , Pretoria and Stuttgart . He was first guest conductor of the Sinfonica Abbruzzese orchestra (1984 to 1988), artistic director and chief conductor of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce (1993 to 1994) and the Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Matera (1997 to 2000) and artistic director of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Catanzaro ( 2003 to 2004). He also worked from 1978 to 1993 as a professor of conducting at the L'Aquila Conservatory . Nicola Samale lives in Rome.

Create

Nicola Samale has composed numerous chamber music, orchestral and vocal works as well as five operas. Together with the composer Giuseppe Mazzuca , he has also written various works in teamwork, including film scores and in particular the first version of the ricostruzione of the unfinished finale of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony in D minor (premier: Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin , Peter Gülke , 1986; CD recording: Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt , Eliahu Inbal , Teldec, 1986). This performance version (1986 to 2007), which he later developed together with John A. Phillips and Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs , made him known to a wide audience. His completion of the unfinished orchestration of Liszt's own piano piece Hexaméron (Variations on the March from I puritani by Vincenzo Bellini ; premiere: 2001, Catania , Orchestra Teatro MV Bellini, Donato Renzetti ), his completed performance version of the Tenth Symphony by Gustav Mahler (with Giuseppe Mazzuca; premier: 2001, Perugia , Wiener Symphoniker , Martin Sieghart ) as well as his addition to the scherzo from the “Unfinished” Symphony in B minor D 759 by Schubert (1988; premier: 1988, Bari , Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, Nicola Samale; revised version 2004 with Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs; premier: 2004, Sarajevo , Sarajevo Symphony Orchestra, Cohrs ). His composition Miracolo a Milano is part of the soundtrack to the German film Drei by Tom Tykwer .

Catalog of works (selection)

Operas

• 67 AD (1994 to 1997)
• Il principe sognatore (1997 to 1999)
• L'eroico Yi Sun Sin (2000)
• Il Castello (1999 to 2002)
• L'ultima messa (2004 to 2006)

Works for orchestra

• Suite lirica No. 1
• Racconti Viennesi Caleidoscopio
• Poema Sinfonico Magica notte based on Italian Christmas carols (2004)
• Cappriccio (clarinet and orchestra)
• Ouverture sinfonica Gaia scienza (concert band)
• Poema sinfonico Ionica (concert band)
• Elegia e Finale (string orchestra)

Works with a choir

• Ave Maria (solos, choir and orchestra)
• Inno a Padre Pio (choir and organ)
• 99 in memoriam (melologo) (reciter and chamber ensemble)
• Plenary (choir and chamber orchestra)
• Weird (choir a cappella)
• Miracolo a Milano (choir a cappella)

Chamber music

• Burlesca (harpsichord)
• Diorama (wind quintet)
• Divertimento (wind quintet)
• Hermes (oboe, 4 horns, horn solo, piano and double bass)
• Il futuro mancato (reciter and chamber ensemble)
• Libaeralia (soprano, reciter and chamber ensemble)
• Pentalfa 14 (flute, alphorn and percussion)
• Suite Lirica (No. 2) based on Italian arias (brass octet)

Edits / orchestrations

• Anton Bruckner , Ninth Symphony in D minor , finale, completion (with Giuseppe Mazzuca, Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs, John A. Phillips, 1985–2007)
• Pablo Casals , Inno alle Nazioni Unite , arrangement for orchestra (1996)
• Franz Liszt , Hexamèron , completion of the unfinished orchestral version begun by Liszt (2001)
• Franz Liszt, Sonata in B minor, arrangement for orchestra (2007)
• Gustav Mahler , 10th Symphony , completion (with Giuseppe Mazzuca; 1st version: 2001)
• Franz Schubert , Scherzo for the symphony in B minor, D 759 (unfinished), instrumentation and addition to the trio (1988; revised version 2004 with Benjamin Gunnar Cohrs)

Web links

• Nicola Samale in the Internet Movie Database (English)