Renato de Grandis

Renato de Grandis (born October 24, 1927 in Venice , † December 2, 2008 ) was an Italian musicologist and composer .

He first studied composition and musicology at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in his hometown and from 1951 attended master classes in Siena . As early as 1945 he received the first Italian radio prize for young composers and in 1953 the first Italian national prize for composition. Since the mid-1950s, de Grandis lived and worked mainly in Darmstadt . After completing his training, he had dealt with serial and twelve-tone technology in particular and also attended the Darmstadt summer courses .

De Grandis saw the focus of his compositional work in the opera . In his main work, "Il Cieco di Yuga" (The Blind Man of Yuga), he tried to combine Far Eastern influences with old Italian and Dutch traditions in order to come close to the ideal of "total theater". With this he exercised considerable influence on the European musical theater of his time. In addition to other music-dramatic works, he also has works for orchestra, chamber music , choral works and arrangements of works from the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular emphasis on the compositions Vincenzo de Grandis (composer, 1631) .

literature

• Christoph Hahn: symphonic readings from an unknown archive. The composer Renato de Grandis (1927–2008). In: New magazine for music . Vol. 171, No. 5, 2010, pp. 50-53, JSTOR 23994103 .