Stefano Scodanibbio

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Stefano Scodanibbio (born June 18, 1956 in Macerata , Italy , † January 8, 2012 in Cuernavaca , Mexico ) was an Italian double bass player and composer .

Life

Scodanibbio, born in Macerata in 1956, was considered one of the most important contemporary double bass players. With newly developed techniques, he expanded the possibilities of the instrument to an extent previously not thought possible, both in terms of pitch and timbre. John Cage described him as the most extraordinary double bass player he had ever heard; like him, Brian Ferneyhough and Luigi Nono continued to explore the possibilities of octave flageolet harmonies opened up by Scodanibbio's playing. Composers such as Sylvano Bussotti , Franco Donatoni , Julio Estrada , Brian Ferneyhough, Fred Frith , Vinko Globokar , Salvatore Sciarrino and Iannis Xenakis wrote works for him.

He worked for a long time with the composers Giacinto Scelsi and Luigi Nono. In 2002 he translated Luciano Berio'ssequence XIV from cello to double bass. He performed regularly in a duo with Rohan de Saram , Terry Riley and Markus Stockhausen . His performances with the experimental poet Edoardo Sanguineti also attracted a lot of attention .

In 1983 he founded the Rassegna di Nuova Musica , a festival for contemporary music in his birthplace , which he has directed ever since. Since 1996 he has been teaching double bass at the summer courses for new music in Darmstadt .

Scodanibbio composed works for double bass solo (including Sei studi) and for other string instruments in various combinations, several string quartets, pieces for guitar, a ballet, music for a radio play, Alfabeto apocalittico for reciter and double bass as well as the musical theater piece Il cielo sulla terra for two Dancers, fifteen children, ten musicians, electronic instruments and video.

reception

Press reviews
  • FonoForum 08/11: “The Italian double bass player and composer Stefano Scodanibbio has been exploring the sound possibilities of his instrument for over 30 years with almost analytical thoroughness. Oltracuidansa (1997/2001) is like an encyclopedia of modern double bass playing , a one-hour solo without any virtuoso showmanship, which fan out into up to nine different individual voices on tape. Normal intonation is an absolute exception in this polyphonic sound continuum, instead Scodanibbio leaves it in the will to `` dive deep into the bowels of the instrument '', rustling, whistling, grumbling and groaning. It is hard to believe that there is no electronic sound alienation at work here. But is not ... "
  • P. Korfmacher in KLASSIK heute 8/98: “This CD with its driving calm, the constantly new mixes of the overtone cosmos in A, calls for more. And when the CD is played after just 46 minutes, one wishes that the title of the work, which the composer and interpreter worked on again and again between 1979 and 1997, would come true, and this breathing power would never end the depth. "

Recordings (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jorge Fernandez Guerra: Ante el fallecimiento de Stefano Scodanibbio , article from February 17, 2012 on docenotas.com (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Irvine Arditti in the liner notes on reinventions
  3. ↑ Meeting (Nordic Music)
personal data
SURNAME Scodanibbio, Stefano
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian double bass player and composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Macerata , Italy
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 2012
Place of death Cuernavaca , Mexico