Riccardo Malipiero (composer)

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Riccardo Malipiero (born July 24, 1914 in Milan , † November 27, 2003 ibid) was an Italian composer , pianist and music teacher .

The son of the cellist Riccardo Malipiero studied piano at the Milan Conservatory from 1932 and composition at the Turin Conservatory from 1937. He also took composition courses from his uncle Gian Francesco Malipiero . From 1935 to 1947 he was a lecturer at the Liceo Musicale " Vincenzo Appiani ". From 1979 he taught at the municipal Liceo Musicale of Varese.

Malipiero initially composed works in free atonality before turning to the twelve-tone technique from 1945 . He is considered to be one of the pioneers of twelve-tone music in Italy, which he propagated in essays in music magazines, books and lectures. In 1949 he organized the first congress for twelve-tone music in Milan, at which u. a. John Cage , Luigi Dallapiccola , Karl Amadeus Hartmann , René Leibowitz , Bruno Maderna and Camillo Togni took part.

In 1969 Malipiero represented Italy at the VII Congress of UNESCO in Moscow. For his services he was awarded a gold medal in 1977 by the city of Milan and in 1984 by the city of Varese.

Works

  • Minnie la candida (own libretto based on Massimo Bontempelli ), opera, 1942
  • Cantata sacra after letters from Catherine of Siena , 1947
  • Prima Sinfonia 1949
  • La donna e mobile , Opera, 1954
  • Concerto per Dimitri for piano and orchestra, ( dedicated to Dimitri Mitropoulos ), 1961
  • Battono alla porta , television opera, 1961
  • Nykteghersia for orchestra, 1962
  • Requiem for orchestra, 1975
  • Loneliness for soprano and large orchestra, 1989
  • Meridiana for soprano and 17 instruments, 1990
  • Liederétudes for soprano and piano, 1991
  • Dalla prigione un suono , 1993
  • Voicequintet for soprano and string quartet, 1994

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