Giancarlo Menotti ( Italian: Gian Carlo Menotti ; July 7, 1911 , Cadeliano Viconago , Lombardy , Varese , Italy - February 1, 2007 , Monte Carlo , Monaco ) - American composer , librettist and teacher of Italian descent. Twice winner of the Pulitzer Prize ( 1950 , 1955 ).
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| Date of Birth | July 7, 1911 |
| Place of Birth | Cadeliano Viconago ( Lombardy , Italy ) |
| Date of death | February 1, 2007 (95 years old) |
| A place of death | Monte Carlo ( Monaco ) |
| A country |  Italy  USA |
| Professions | composer , librettist , music teacher |
| Instruments | the piano |
| Genres | opera , ballet , symphonic music |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize ( 1950 , 1955 ), Kennedy Center Award (1984), title “Musician of the Year” (1991) |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Recognition
- 4 Artworks
- 4.1 Opera
- 4.2 Choral works
- 4.3 Ballet
- 5 Literature
- 6 notes
- 7 References
Biography
He began to write music at the age of seven, at eleven he wrote the first opera Death of Pierrot, but began to seriously engage in music at the Milan Conservatory , where he entered in 1923 . In 1928, after his father’s death, he moved to the United States with his mother, entered the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia , where he subsequently taught. He studied with Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber . He wrote for Barber, whose life partner was for many years, the libretto of the opera Vanessa (premiere of 1958 ) and several other operas.
Creativity
Menotti's main genre is operas, he composed twenty-five of them. The first three libretto he wrote in Italian, then he wrote them only in English. He also owns ballet, choral, symphonic and other compositions, several songs on his own poems.
In 1958 he founded (together with conductor Thomas Schippers ) the music festival of the two worlds in Spoleto , and in 1977 - parallel to it in Charleston (South Carolina) . They largely contributed to the expansion of public interest in the opera genre.
Recognition
- Guggenheim Scholarship (1946, 1947) [1]
- Pulitzer Prize ( 1950 , 1955 )
- Kennedy Center Award ( 1984 )
- Title “Musician of the Year” ( 1991 )
Artwork
Opera
- Amelia al Ballo ( 1937 )
- The Old Maid and the Thief, radio opera ( 1939 )
- The Island of God ( 1942 )
- Medium Eng. The Medium ( 1946 )
- The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois ( 1947 )
- The Consul ( 1950 , Pulitzer Prize )
- Amahl and the Night Visitors, a television opera at Christmas ( 1951 )
- The Saint of Bleeker Street ( 1954 , Pulitzer Prize 1955 )
- Maria Golovin ( 1958 )
- Labyrinth, television opera ( 1963 )
- The Last ( 1963 )
- Martin's Lie ( 1964 )
- Help, Help, the Globolinks! ( 1968 )
- The Most Important Man ( 1971 )
- Tamu-Tamu ( 1973 )
- The Egg ( 1976 )
- The Hero ( 1976 )
- The Trial of the Gypsy ( 1978 )
- Chip and his Dog ( 1979 )
- La Loca ( 1979 )
- A Bride from Pluto ( 1982 )
- The Boy Who Grew Too Fast ( 1982 )
- Goya ( 1986 , ed. 1991 )
- The Wedding (Giorno da Nozze) ( 1988 )
- The Singing Child ( 1993 )
Choral Works
- The Death of the Bishop of Brindisi ( 1963 )
- Landscapes and Remembrances ( 1976 )
- Missa O Pulchritudo in Honorem Sacratissimi Cordis Jesus ( 1979 )
- Miracles ( 1979 )
- A Song of Hope (An Old Man's Soliloquy) ( 1980 )
- Muero Porque No Muero, Cantata for St. Teresa, to the verses of St. Theresa ( 1982 )
- For the Death of Orpheus ( 1990 )
- Oh llama de amor viva, to the verses of San Juan de la Cruz (1991)
- Jacob's Prayer ( 1997 )
Ballet
- Errand into the Maze ( 1947 )
Literature
- Gruen J. Menotti: A Biography. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
- Wlaschin K. Gian Carlo Menotti on Screen: Opera, Dance and Choral Works on Film, Television and Video. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., 1999
Notes
- ↑ Gian Carlo Menotti . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . gf.org. Date of appeal April 16, 2019.