Roman Vlad

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Roman Vlad (born December 29, 1919 in Chernivtsi , Bukowina , Romania ; † September 21, 2013 in Rome , Italy ) was an Italian composer , pianist and musicologist born in Romania . He created numerous musical works for Italian cinema in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Including compositions for films such as The Walls of Malapaga , The Pact with the Devil , A Sunday in August , Lady of the World or Girls in the Shop Window .

life and work

Roman Vlad first studied in his native Romania with Titus Tarnawski and Liviu Russu and obtained a diploma as a pianist. Before the arrival of the Red Army , he fled to Italy in 1938 , where he studied at the University of Rome and later at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia . In 1951, Vlad also officially became an Italian citizen.

Vlad began his career as an interpreter and composer, winning the Enescu Prize in 1942 for his Sinfonietta and the Silver Ribbon for his film music. He was artistic director of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1966 to 1969. In 1960 he became president of the Italian Society for New Music and musical advisor for the third Italian program RAI .

Vlad was a versatile composer, he wrote symphonic works for the concert hall but also ballet music and music for the theater. As a musicologist, Vlad has published various books on music, including the history of twelve-tone music (1958) and the biographies of Stravinsky and Dallapiccola .

Mostly known, however, Roman Vlad for his numerous film compositions. During the 1940s he wrote the music for numerous short and documentary films such as Racconto da un affresco , Romantici a Venezia or Bianchi pascoli , before devoting himself to the composition of feature films from 1946 onwards. His first great success was in 1949 with the music for the drama by director René Clément The Walls of Malapaga with Jean Gabin and Isa Miranda in the leading roles. At the beginning of the 1950s, the scores for René Clair's The Pact with the Devil with Michel Simon and Gérard Philipe and for the comedy A Sunday in August by director Luciano Emmer were created .

In the 1950s he composed the music for numerous well-known directors such as Marcello Pagliero , Mario Zampi , Giuliano Biagetti , Romolo Marcellini , Ladislao Vajda , Vittorio Gassman , Riccardo Freda , Jules Dassin , Alexandre Astruc , Francesco Rosi and Ralph Habib . At the beginning of the 1960s, various other film compositions were created for filmmakers such as William Dieterle , Marino Girolami , Carlo Campogalliani , Vincenzo Lucci Chiarissi and Renato Castellani .

In 1988 he wrote one of his last film scores for the film Il giovane Toscanini by director Franco Zeffirelli . Roman Vlad died on September 21, 2013 at the age of 93 in Rome .

Vlad was a member of the Board of Directors of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and artistic advisor for the Ravenna Festival and the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto .

Awards

  • 1942: Enescu Prize
  • 1995: Gold medal for merits of culture and art

Filmography (selection)

Feature films

  • 1946: Eugenia Grandet
  • 1949: Monastero di Santa Chiara
  • 1949: The walls of Malapaga (Le mura di Malapaga)
  • 1949: The bride cannot wait (La sposa non può attendere)
  • 1950: A Sunday in August (Domenica d'agosto)
  • 1950: The last days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei)
  • 1950: The pact with the devil (La beauté du diable)
  • 1950: Women without a name (Donne senza nome)
  • 1951: Three Steps North
  • 1951: Incantesimo tragico
  • 1951: Parigi è semper Parigi
  • 1953: La cavallina storna
  • 1953: Ho scelto l'amore
  • 1954: love, women and soldiers (Destinées)
  • 1954: Favorite of women (Monsieur Ripois)
  • 1954: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)
  • 1954: The crooks parade (I tre ladri)
  • 1955: Bought happiness (Non c'è amore più grande)
  • 1955: Il padrone sono me ...
  • 1956: The mink coat (Una pelliccia di visone)
  • 1956: Genius and Madness (Kean)
  • 1956: The Vampire of Notre Dame (I vampiri)
  • 1956: My uncle, the torero (Mi tío Jacinto)
  • 1956: Camilla
  • 1956: The most beautiful days in life (I giorni più belli)
  • 1957: Mario and the Great Dane Chita (Lauta mancia)
  • 1957: dreams in the drawer (I sogni nel cassetto)
  • 1958: The Challenge (La sfida)
  • 1958: A Woman's Life (Une vie)
  • 1959: Where the hot wind blows (La legge)
  • 1959: Hell in the city (Nella città l'inferno)
  • 1959: The Red Corsair's Retribution (Il figlio del corsaro rosso)
  • 1959: Caltiki, Riddle of Horror (Caltiki - il mostro immortale)
  • 1959: Black Chapel secret operation
  • 1960: Mobby Jackson
  • 1960: Island of White Waters (Scana Boa)
  • 1960: mistress of the world
  • 1960: La encrucijada
  • 1961: Ursus - avenger of the slaves (Ursus)
  • 1961: Girl in the shop window (La ragazza in vetrina)
  • 1962: The Terrible Secret of Dr. Hichcock (L'orribile segreto del Dr. Hichcock)
  • 1962: Only dead witnesses are silent
  • 1963: Dark Shops (Un figlio d'oggi)
  • 1964: Controsesso (segment for "Donna d'affari, Una")
  • 1988: Il giovane Toscanini

TV Shows

  • 1960: Cieli alti (TV movie)
  • 1966: La fantarca (TV movie)
  • 1971: La vita di Leonardo da Vinci (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1978: Effetti speciali (TV movie)
  • 1979: Little Archimedes (Il piccolo Archimede) (TV movie)
  • 1982: Giuseppe Verdi - An Italian Legend (Verdi) (mini-television series)

Short films or documentaries

  • 1941: Racconto da un affresco (short documentary film)
  • 1942: Destino d'amore (short film)
  • 1948: Romantici a Venezia (short documentary film)
  • 1948: La leggenda di Sant'Orsola (short documentary film)
  • 1948: Il paradiso perduto (short film)
  • 1948: Bianchi pascoli (short documentary film)
  • 1949: La colonna Traiana (documentary)
  • 1949: I fratelli miracolosi (short documentary film)
  • 1951: Pictura (documentary film)
  • 1952: Leonardo da Vinci (documentary)
  • 1953: Dieci anni della nostra vita (documentary film)
  • 1954: Fantastic India (India favolosa) (documentary)
  • 1958: La redenzione (documentary film)
  • 1959: Fiesta en Pamplona (short documentary)
  • 1959: Paradiso terrestre (documentary)
  • 1963: Chagall (documentary short film)
  • 1966: La sublima fatica (short documentary film)
  • 2010: Roman Vlad e il suono della memoria (documentary)

Concert works

Symphonic music

  • Suite of Christmas carols Transylvania
  • Meditations on an ancient Russian chant
  • Music for violins (Meloritmi)
  • Concerto for piano and orchestra Concertante Variations on a twelve-tone series of Mozart's Don Giovanni
  • Concert for guitar and orchestra
  • Concerto for harp and orchestra (sonnets to Orpheus)

Chamber music

Music for ballet

  • La strada del caffè
  • La dama delle camelie
  • Il gabbiano
  • The return

Music for theater

  • 1947: La fiera delle maschere
  • 1951: Intermezzo

Publications

  • Modernità e tradizione nella musica contemporanea , Turin, Giulio Einaudi, 1955
  • Luigi Dallapiccola , Milan, Suvini Zerboni, 1957
  • Stravinsky , Turin, Giulio Einaudi, 1958
  • Storia della dodecafonia , Milan, Suvini Zerboni, 1958
  • Introduzione alla civiltà musicale , Bologna, Nicola Zanichelli, 1988
  • Capire la musica , Florence, Giunti, 1989, ISBN 880920154X
  • Architettura di un capolavoro. Analisi della Sagra della primavera di Igor Stravinsky , Turin, BMG Publications, 2005 - ISBN 88-7592-802-9

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical data from Roman Vlad in: Bibliography on Culture and Regional Studies of Bukowina , by Erich Beck, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003, page 676
  2. ↑ Biographical data of Roman Vlad in: The Symphony of the Generazione dell'Ottanta: Requirements, Developments and Evaluation , by Maria Christine Haustein, Verlag Peter Lang, Frankfurt, 2008, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2008, page 285
  3. ↑ Obituary for Roman Vlad in: Romania Libera ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.romanialibera.ro
personal data
SURNAME Vlad, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Chernivtsi , Bucovina , Romania
DATE OF DEATH 21st September 2013
Place of death Rome , Italy