Carlo Prosperi ( Italian: Carlo Prosperi ; 1921-1990) - Italian composer and teacher.
| Carlo Prosperi Carlo prosperi | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | March 13, 1921 |
| Place of Birth | Florence |
| Date of death | June 15, 1990 (69 years old) |
| Place of death | Florence |
| A country |  Italy |
| Professions | composer |
| Instruments | French horn |
| Genres | classical music |
| carloprosperi.it | |
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Life and work
He received his musical education at the Florentine Conservatory named after Luigi Cherubini , where he studied with Rodolfo Chichonesi (French horn), Dallapiccola (compulsory piano) and Frazzi (composition). He graduated from the performing department (in the horn class) in 1940, composer - in 1949 (a break in music was related to military service: during the Second World War, Prosperi served in Montenegro ). In 1950–58 he worked at the RAI in Turin and Rome as an assistant compiler of academic music programs. From 1958 he began to teach harmony and counterpoint , from 1969 - composition in the Florentine Conservatory (worked there until 1989). Since 1969 he was a member of the Luigi Cherubini National Academy.
He was a prominent representative of the Italian musical avant-garde of the 1950s, when he developed a free atonality system with a strictly controlled multi-track presentation of the series, which differs both from orthodox dodecafony , and even more so from serial music . It was alien to the radical experiments that took place in European music in those and subsequent years, especially aleatorics and structuralism. The works of the mature period of Prosperi are distinguished by special attention to the timbre and sound matter, as well as lyricism and openness to the listener. Recent works are marked by echoes of neoclassicism in the increasingly ascetic in the use of sound, fixed forms and appeal to the music of the past.
In Florence, in 2004, the composer's archive was opened, which is supervised by Mario Ruffini .
Bibliography
- Renzo Cresti: Carlo Prosperi (Gruppo Italiano di Musica Contemporanea, Florence, 1993)
- Carlo Prosperi e il Novecento musicale da Firenze all'Europa; a cura di Mario Ruffini. Antologia Vieusseux - n. 37-38-39, gennaio-dicembre 2007 .
Selected Works
- Four Inventions (Quattro invenzioni) , 1952–53, for clarinet, violin, viola and harp
- Enchantment (Incanti) , 1963, for soprano, solo instrumentalists and orchestra, to verses by Paul Valerie
- On the second night (In nocte secunda), 1968, for guitar, harpsichord and six violins
- Constellations (Costellazione) , 1971, for harpsichord
- Rainbow Concerto (Concerto dell'arcobaleno), 1972–73, for piano, marimba and strings
- Song (Chant) , 1975, for violin and piano, dedicated to the memory of Luigi Dallapiccola
- Toccata , 1975, for strings
- Praise of stupidity (Elogio della follia) , 1978, ballet in two acts on the text of Erasmus of Rotterdam and other authors
- Songs of anxiety and joy (Canti dell'ansia e della gioia), 1980–82, two series, for soprano, tenor and nine instrumentalists, to verses by Carlo Betocchi
- O Diotima , 1981, for soprano, violin, viola and harp, to verses by Friedrich Hölderlin
- Five Counterpoints (Cinque contrapuncti) , 1982, for three guitars, based on Bach's Fugue Art
Links
- Official Website (Italian )
- Prosperi page on the website of Suvini Zerboni Publishing House (inaccessible link) (Italian)
- Audio and video music Prosperi on YouTube