Name Lorenzo Ferrero Role Composer | Music director Anemia | |
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Record labels Naxos Records, Stradivarius Compositions Risorgimento!, Risorgimento!, Franca Florio - regina di Palermo, Franca Florio - regina di Palermo, Charlotte Corday, Charlotte Corday, La Conquista, La Conquista, Mare nostro, Mare nostro, Salvatore Giuliano, Salvatore Giuliano, La figlia del mago, La figlia del mago, Marilyn, Marilyn, La matanza del Templo Mayor, La matanza del Templo Mayor, Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir, Le bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir, Requiem per le vittime della mafia, Requiem per le vittime della mafia, Respiri, Respiri, Zaubermarsch, Zaubermarsch, Missa Brevis, Missa Brevis, Tourists and Oracles, Tourists and Oracles, Haring at the Exhibition, Haring at the Exhibition, Moonlight Sonata, Moonlight Sonata, My Rock, My Rock, Rastrelli in Saint Petersburg, Rastrelli in Saint Petersburg, Seven Portraits of the Same Person, Seven Portraits of the Same Person, Night, Night, La Nueva Espana: III La ruta de Cortes, La Nueva Espana: III La ruta de Cortes, Tempi di quartetto, Tempi di quartetto, Movimento americano, Movimento americano, Le piccole storie - ai margini delle guerre, Le piccole storie - ai margini delle guerre, Two Cathedrals in the South, Two Cathedrals in the South, Empty Stage, Empty Stage, Adagio cantabile, Adagio cantabile, My Piece of Africa, My Piece of Africa, La Nueva Espana: VI La noche triste, La Nueva Espana: VI La noche triste, Five Easy Pieces, Five Easy Pieces, Sonata, Sonata, Discanto sulla musica sull'aqua di Handel, Discanto sulla musica sull'aqua di Handel, Portrait, Portrait, El encuentro, El encuentro, Pochi secondi, Pochi secondi, Storie di neve, Storie di neve, La nueva Espana, La nueva Espana, Freedom Variations, Freedom Variations, Thema 44, Thema 44, Non parto - non resto, Non parto - non resto, Variazioni sulla notte, Variazioni sulla notte, Passacaglia, Passacaglia, Op 111 - Bagatella su Beethoven, Op 111 - Bagatella su Beethoven, DEsCH, DEsCH, Soleils, Soleils, Balletto, Balletto, Canti polacchi, Canti polacchi, Presagios, Presagios, La Nueva Espana: II Memoria del fuego, La Nueva Espana: II Memoria del fuego, Ellipse, Ellipse Similar People Marco Tutino, Hans Werner Henze, Marco Fumo, Giacomo Puccini, Sem Benelli | ||
Lorenzo ferrero risorgimento
Lorenzo Ferrero (born 1951) is a contemporary Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. His musical idiom is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility, and a neo-tonal language.
Contents
- Lorenzo ferrero risorgimento
- Lorenzo ferrero scene from le piccole storie
- Biography
- Works
- Opera
- Ballet
- Orchestral music
- Chamber and instrumental music
- Choral and vocal music
- Incidental and theatre music
- Film score
- Books and book contributions
- References
Lorenzo ferrero scene from le piccole storie
Biography
Born in Turin, he studied composition from 1969 to 1973 with Massimo Bruni and Enore Zaffiri at Turin Music Conservatory, and philosophy with Gianni Vattimo and Massimo Mila at the University of Turin, earning a degree in aesthetics with a thesis on John Cage in 1974.
His early interest in the psychology of perception and psychoacoustics led him to IMEB, the International Electroacoustic Music Institute of Bourges, where he did research on electronic music between 1972 and 1973, IRCAM in Paris, and to the Musik/Dia/Licht/Film Galerie in Munich in 1974.
Lorenzo Ferrero has received commissions from numerous festivals and institutions, his works being constantly performed throughout Europe and North America, particularly in Italy, Germany, France, Great Britain, Spain, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, and the United States.
His most popular compositions include the operas Marilyn, La figlia del mago, Salvatore Giuliano, Charlotte Corday, La Conquista, and Risorgimento!, the first Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra, the set of six symphonic poems La Nueva España, the song cycle Canzoni d'amore, the Capriccio for Piano and String Orchestra, Parodia, Ostinato, Glamorama Spies, Tempi di quartetto for string quartet, and the ballet Franca Florio, regina di Palermo. In 1986 he participated in the Prix Italia with his work La fuga di Foscolo. His music is published by Casa Ricordi, Milan.
As an active manager of art events, he has served as artistic director of the Festival Puccini in Torre del Lago (1980–84), "Unione Musicale" in Turin (1983–87), Arena di Verona Festival (1991–94), and the "Musica 2000" fair. In 1999 he co-founded and coordinated the "Festa della Musica", a showcase of classical, jazz and world music held in Milan, and four years later he managed the Ravello Festival.
In 2007 Lorenzo Ferrero was appointed to the board of directors and elected vice-president of SIAE, the Italian Authors and Publishers Association. That same year he published the Manuale di scrittura musicale, a manual which describes the basic rules of correct and elegant music writing from the orthographic as well as the graphic point of view, which is addressed to all composers, musicologists, teachers, students and copy-editors in need of practical advice. In 2008 he translated, edited and published Lo studio dell'orchestrazione, the Italian edition of Samuel Adler's The Study of Orchestration, a landmark orchestration manual.
Lorenzo Ferrero has been professor of composition at Milan Conservatory since 1980. His teaching appointments also include positions at St. Mary's College of Maryland and LUISS Business School, a division of LUISS Guido Carli University of Rome. Moreover, as member of the Italian National Union of Composers, Librettists and Authors he co-founded ECSA, the European Composer and Songwriter Alliance, and since 2011 he is Chairman of CIAM, the International Council of Music Authors, which is a committee within CISAC, the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers.
He was described in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera as "the most successful opera composer of his generation in Italy" and in The New Penguin Opera Guide as "a principal exponent of the neo-tonal tendencies common to a number of Italian composers of his generation, who has championed a brand of narrative music-theatre that aims to capture a wider audience than that achieved by the heirs of the modernist tradition."
Works
In addition to the original works listed below, Lorenzo Ferrero completed the orchestration of the third version of the opera La rondine by Giacomo Puccini, which was subsequently premiered at Teatro Regio di Torino on 22 March 1994. With a group of six other Italian composers he wrote the Requiem per le vittime della mafia, a collaborative composition for soloists, choir and orchestra on an Italian text by Vincenzo Consolo. The requiem was first performed in the Palermo Cathedral on 27 March 1993. Furthermore, he wrote the music for the Sestriere Alpine World Ski Championships opening ceremony of 1997 including the official anthem, incidental music for stage productions, and a film score. British musicologist David Osmond-Smith described his style as "an unabashed synthesis of classical traditions and pop [...] that never forgets its 19-century precursors."
Opera
Ballet
Orchestral music
Chamber and instrumental music
Piano music
Organ and harpsichord