Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio (October 24th 1925 with Oneglia - May 27th 2003 with Rome) Type-setter Italy N considered for its experimental work and its work of pioneer in the Music electroacoustic.

His/her father and his grandfather were organists who taught him the Piano. From 1946 to 1951, he studied with the academy Giuseppe Verdi of Milan at Giulio Cesare Paribeni (counterpoint) and Giorgio Federico Ghedini (composition). It is at that time that he discovers the modern type-setters: Vienneses, Bartok, Stravinski, Hindemith or Milhaud.

Wounded with the hand, it cannot continue its studies of piano and earns its living like guide of classes of song. It became acquainted American with the soprano thus Cathy Berberian which it married in 1950. They remained married until 1964.

In 1951, it went to the United States to Tanglewood to study at Luigi Dallapiccola which pushed its interest towards the principles of the Sérialisme. It took part in the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik with Darmstadt where it became acquainted with Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, György Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel. It started to be interested in the electronic music and founded in 1954 in Milan the “Studio di Fonologia Musicale” with Bruno Maderna. It invited there many type-setters like Henri Pousseur and John Cage. Amongst other things, he became editor of a review devoted to the experimental music, the “Incontri Musicali”.

In 1960, it turned over to Tanglewood and, with the invitation of Darius Milhaud in 1962, he became professor in Mill' S College with Oakland, California. As from 1965, he taught at the University of Harvard and the Juilliard School off Music where he founded the “Juilliard Unit” which is devoted to the modern music (New York, 1967). In 1966, it gains the “Prix Italia” for its work “Laborintus II”. In 1968 will be presented to the public its most outstanding work, the “Sinfonia”.

In 1972, it turned over to Italy to settle in Rome. From 1974 to 1980, he was director of the department of Acoustique of IRCAM to Paris. With Florence, it founded, in 1987, the Tempo Reale, a of the same center orientation than the IRCAM.

From 1994 to 2000, he was type-setter in residence with Harvard. He composed there until the end of his life. He dies on May 27th, 2003.

Its works

Dramatic works

  • Passagio .1961
  • Laborintus II .1965
  • Opera .1969-70
  • will vera It Storia .1978
  • a Re in ascolto .1984
  • " Hey, Hey" 1966

Orchestrates

  • Concertino . Cl. vn. concealment. grip. cordes.1949
  • Nuns .1954
  • Allelujah .1955
  • Divertimento . in collaboration with Bruno Maderna.1958
  • Tempi concertati .1959
  • Ways I .1959, II .1969, III .1975
  • Points one the Curve to find… for piano and 20 instruments.1974
  • Concerto . 2 pianos and orch.1973. Concerto. piano and orchestre.1977
  • Corale . (1981)
  • Alternatim (93-97) double concerto for clarinet and viola

Vocal works

  • Quatro canzoni populari . piano and vx of femme.1946
  • Magnificat .1949
  • Opus number Zoo for wind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and horn (text of R. Levine recited by the instrumentalists) 1952
  • Circles for voice of woman, grips and two percussionnists 1960
  • Epiphanie 1961
  • Folks Songs. 1964 (for instrumental small formation and voice, two are resumptions of Niles Jacob)
  • Sequenza III 1966
  • Sinfonia for eight vote and instruments 1968
  • El mar the mar 1969
  • Cries off London for six votes 1973/74
  • Cries off London version for eight votes 1974/76
  • radiophonic A-Ronne documentary for five actors on a poem of D. Sanguineti 1974/75
  • Coro for 40 votes and instruments 1974/76
  • Epiphanies orchestra and voice of women 1992
  • Shofar chorus and orchestra 1995

Instrumental music and of room

  • Due pezzi . violin & piano 1951
  • Sequenza I (flute) 1958, II (toothing-stone) 1963, IV (piano) 1966, V (trbn.) 1966,
  • VI (goes.) 1967, VII (oboe) 1969, VIII (vn.) 1975, IX (clarinet) 1975, X (trp) 1984,
  • XI (guitar) 1988, XII (bassoon) 1993, XIII (accordion) 1996, XIV (violoncello) 2002.
  • Differences for 5 instruments and band 1959-67
  • Quatuor with cords 1956
  • Sincronie string quintet 1963
  • Musica will leggera cannonades permoto contrario E Al roverscio, idiot breve intermezzo, for flute, viola and accompaniment of violoncello 1974
  • the words went for violoncello

Music for band

  • Thema (Omaggio has Joyce) 1958
  • Momenti 1960
  • Visage with the voice of Cathy Berberian 1961
  • Chants parallel 1974-1975
  • Accordo for four group of instruments at a hundred and 1980
and of many arrangements and transcriptions.

Selective discography

  • Sequenzas I-XIII - Unit InterContemporain (1998, DGG 457.038-2)
  • Recital I for Cathy (1971), Folk songs (1964) - Cathy Berberian, London Sinfonietta, Juilliard Together, Dir. Luciano Berio (1972, 1968, RCA 09026 62540 2)

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