Goffredo Petrassi
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Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 – 2 March 2003) was an Italian
Life
Petrassi was born at Zagarolo, near Rome. At the age of 15 he began to work at a music shop to supply his family's financial needs, and became fascinated by music. In 1928, he entered the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome to study organ and composition. In 1933, composer Alfredo Casella conducted Petrassi's Partita for orchestra at the ISCM festival in Amsterdam.
From 1940 to 1960 Petrassi was professor of composition at the
Music
Petrassi's early work was part of an attempt by several Italian composers to create a national "Italian" revival in classical music, corresponding to the romantic work of Germans such as Richard Wagner. During this time, his work was characteristically neoclassical in style, influenced by Bartók, Hindemith and Stravinsky.
In later years, Petrassi's open musical mind and acute personality led him to experiment with different post-
Petrassi stopped composing in 1986 due to progressive loss of eyesight.
Works
- Sinfonia, Siciliana e Fuga per Quartetto d'Archi (1929)[4]
- Partita for Orchestra (1932)
- Preludio, Aria, e Finale for Cello and Piano (1933)
- Concerto for Orchestra (1934)
- Psalm IX (1934–36)
- Piano Concerto (1936–39)
- Magnificat (1939–40)
- Coro di Morti (1941)
- Quatro inni Sacri (1942–50)
- La follia di Orlando (1942–43) (also as a symphonic suite)
- Ritratto di Don Chisciotte (1945)
- Il Cordovano (1948)
- Morte dell'aria (1950)
- Noche Oscura (1950–51)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 2 (1951)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 3 (1953)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 4 (1954)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 5 (1955)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 6 (1956–57)[4]
- Quartetto per Archi (String Quartet) (1957)[4]
- Serenata (1957)[4]
- Trio per Archi (String Trio) (1959)[4]
- Flute Concerto (1960)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 7 (1963–64)
- Concerto for Orchestra No. 8 (1970–72)
- Orationes Christi (1975)
- Kyrie (1990)
References
- ^ Anthony Tommasini (5 March 2003). "Goffredo Petrassi, Italian Modernist Composer, Dies at 98". The New York Times. p. C 13. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ Petrassi, Goffredo. (2008). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved March 14, 2008, from Encyclopædia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9059491
- ISBN 88-7063-044-7
- ^ a b c d e Porena, Boris. (1978). Goffredo Petrassi: Trio E Quartetto Per Archi. Italia [ITL 70033]; Fonit Cetra spa. Retrieved 2021-09-05. [1]
External links
- The Goffredo Petrassi Institute Archived 2011-09-27 at the Wayback Machine (in Italian)
- Goffredo Petrassi Un maestro del Novecento (in Italian)
- Guardian obituary