Sylvano Bussotti
Sylvano Bussotti | |
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Florence Conservatory | |
Occupation(s) | Composer, painter, designer |
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Spouse | Rocco Quaglia |
Awards | ISCM Prize |
Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of
Life and career
Born in
As a composer he was influenced by the
Bussotti also pursued other disciplines including painting, graphic art, and journalism.[3] He was a well-known film director, actor, and singer. He wrote most of the librettos for his operas. As a writer, his style was considered one of the most refined among the Italian poets and novelists of the 20th century. French culture fascinated him since he was a boy. His great friend Cathy Berberian (Luciano Berio's wife) was one of his most famous interpreters. He was well acquainted with writers and film directors Aldo Palazzeschi, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Derek Jarman, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Aldo Braibanti, Mario Zanzotto, Fabio Casadei Turroni, Dacia Maraini, and Umberto Eco. Jarman was the director of his opera L'Ispirazione, first staged in Florence in 1988.[5] Rara Film is his most celebrated underground film. The silent film, according to the author's instructions, should be performed, together with the score, played by seven to eleven players. The music of Rara Film is not a strict counterpoint of the film, flowing without any relation to the images.[6]
Bussotti was the stage director of Mussorgsky's
Bussotti died at a nursing home in Milan at age 89 after a long illness, shortly before his 90th birthday.
Awards
Bussotti was awarded the
Works
Music
Most of Bussotti's works were published by Casa Ricordi:[4][5]
Stage works
- La Passion selon Sade (mistero da camera), The Passion after Sade (chamber mystery) 1965[5]
- Lorenzaccio, premiered at La Fenice in 1972[11]
- Bergkristall (balletto, 1973)[11]
- Nottetempo (dramma lirico), 1976 with
- Oggetto amato, ballet in one act (1976),at the
- La rarità. Potente. premiered at the Teatro Regio di Torino in 1979[11]
- Le Racine (Pianobar pour Phèdre), chamber opera in a prologue, three acts and an intermezzo for voices, premiered at Piccola Scala in Milan in 1980[2][1][11]
- Fedra, tragedia lirica, 1988[11]
- L'ispirazione, melodramma in three acts, 1988[11]
- Silvano Sylvano. Rappresentazione della vita, chamber opera in one tempo on words (testi) di Sylvano Bussotti (2002–2007)[5]
Other compositions
- Due Voci, for soprano, Martenot waves, and orchestra (text: La Fontaine (1958))[12]
- Sette Fogli, for various solo and group ensembles (1959)[12][a]
- Piêces de Chair II, for piano, baritone, female voice and instruments (1960)[12]
- Pour Clavier (1961)[12][b]
- Memories, 5 scenes for mixed choir, soloists and orchestra (texts: Braibanti, Pasolini e.a. (1962))[12]
- La Passion selon Sade, chamber mystery play for voice, mime, actors and instruments (1965)[12]
- Marbre, for 11 strings and spinet (1967)[12]
- Rara Requiem, for soprano, mezzo, tenor, baritone,mixed vocal sextet, choir and instrumental ensemble (1970)[12]
- I Semi di Gramsci, symphonic poem for string quartet and orchestra (1971) Score: Ricordi. World premiere: 22 April 1972 (Quartetto Italiano, ?, ?) dedicated to the Quartetto Italiano[13][12]
- Sadun, for 12-part choir (1975)[12]
- Amato object ('Bussottioperaballet' (1976)) [12]
- Raragramma, for orchestra and violin and flute obbligato. (1980) I. Raragramma; II. L’enfant prodige; III. Paganini; IV. Calando symphony. Score: Ricordi. World premiere: 20 October 1979 (Fabbriciani, SWF Sinfonieorchester, Bour) second part of the cycle "Il catalogo e questo"; dedicated to Romano, Rocco and Luigi Pestalozza and Francesco Degrada[13]
- Modello, for violin and orchestra. (1998) World premiere: xx.04.2000 (Agazzini, ?, Tamayo) dedicated to S. Rocco[13]
Novels and poems
Bussotti's writings included:[5]
- I miei teatri, Il Novecento edition, Palermo, 1982.
- Letterati Ignoranti, poesie per musica, Quaderni di Barbablù, Siena, 1986.
- Sylvano Bussotti, nudi ritratti e disegnini, sketches with poems by Romani Brizzi, Trucchi e Bussotti, Il polittico edition, Rome, 1991.
- Non fare il minimo rumore, Girasole Edition, Ravenna, 1997.
- Disordine alfabetico, Spirali Edition, Milan, 2002.
- La calligrafia di un romanzo uno e due, novel in Peccati veniali, a cura di A. Veneziani, Coniglio editore, Rome, 2004.
- L'acuto, in Angelo d'Edimburgo by Fabio Casadei Turroni, Le Mondine Edition, Molinella, 2006.
- I Mozart vanno vanno, interludio in La notte delle dissonanze, by Sandro Cappelletto , EDT, Turin, 2007.
Discography
- Suono, segno, gesto visione a Firenze (Sound, sign, gesture, vision in Florence)
- (CD 1): Sylvano Bussotti, Giancarlo Cardini, Giuseppe Chiari, Daniele Lombardi
- (CD 2): Pietro Grossi, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Albert Mayr, Daniele Lombardi, Marcello Aitiani, Sergio Maltagliati (Atopos music 1999-2008).[14][15]
The path of more than fifty years of musical culture in Florence, since the end of the Second World War, is documented in these two audio CDs. This audio recording contains the meeting of composers and pianists who are the protagonists of the Music of Art in Florence, a significant phenomenon in the history of the second half of the twentieth century.[16]
Notes and references
Notes
- YouTube, Roger Woodward
- ^ Recording at the London Music Digest, Roundhouse London, 1970s; Sylvano Bussotti: Pour Clavier (audio) on YouTube, Roger Woodward
References
- ^ a b c d e f "Bussotti dies on the eve of the 90 Bussotti, the party becomes a tribute to the great composer". Teller Report. 19 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Sylvano Bussotti: flamboyant composer, poet, set and costume designer, theatre director, and… and… and…". Gramilano. 27 December 2012. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e "Musica, addio al compositore Sylvano Bussotti: Firenze si preparava a festeggiare i 90 anni". La Stampa (in Italian). 20 September 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ a b c "Sylvano Bussotti". Casa Ricordi. 2021. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m "Sylvano Bussotti (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.
- ^ Frandzel, Benjamin (30 November 2010). "A Rare Silent Film From an Experimental Composer". San Francisco Classical Voice. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
- ^ Attinello, Paul (2002), "Bussotti, Sylvano", glbtq.com
- ^ Mort de Sylvano Bussotti, compositeur, homme de théâtre et provocateur on France Musique
- ^ "Perspectives on Sylvano Bussotti | H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften | Geschichte im Netz | History in the web". H-Soz-Kult. Kommunikation und Fachinformation für die Geschichtswissenschaften. 14 October 2021. Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ "ATTACCA! – E-MEX". Retrieved 14 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Honegger, Marc (1993). "Bussoti, Sylvano". Dictionnaire de la musique: Les hommes et leurs oeuvres. Gale.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Sabbe, Herman (1990). "Bussotti, Sylvano". Algemene muziek encyclopedie. Gale.
- ^ a b c Broeker, Tobias (2016). "Bussotti, Sylvano (1931 –)". The 20th century violin concertante: A repertoire catalogue.
- ^ "Suono, segno, gesto visione a Firenze 2". 2014.
- ^ "Suono, segno, gesto visione a Firenze". 2008.
- ^ Suono Segno Gesto Visione a Firenze 2
Further reading
- Attinello, Paul. Signifying Chaos: A Semiotic Analysis of Sylvano Bussotti's "Siciliano", in: repercussions 1 (1992), pp. 84–110.
- Bortolotto, Mario. Fase seconda. Studi sulla Nuova Musica, Einaudi, Turin 1969. [especially the chapter "Le cinque tentazioni di Bussotti", pp. 201–226.]
- Bortolotto, Mario (ed.). "Sognato dalla storia": materiali per un "Lorenzaccio", in: Lo Spettatore musicale, Sonderheft, Bologna 1972 [with contributions from Mario Bortolotto, Giorgio Manganelli, and Salvatore Sciarrino].
- Bucci, Moreno (ed.). L'opera di Sylvano Bussotti. Musica, segno, immagine, progetto. Il teatro, le scene, i costumi, gli attrezzi ed i capricci dagli anni Quaranta al BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET, Electa editrice, Milano 1988.
- Bussotti, Sylvano (10 March 1973). "About Pour Clavier and Per tre sul recordings" (PDF) (in Italian). Letter to Roger Woodward.
- Bussotti, Sylvano (1 February 1974). "Bussotti's acknowledgements to Roger Woodward about his recording of Pour Clavier and Per Tre sul piano and the essay on Pieces de Chair II" (PDF) (in Italian). Letter to Roger Woodward.
- Degrada, Francesco (ed.). Bussottioperaballet: Sylvano Bussotti e il suo teatro: Oggetto amato ─ Nottetempo, Ricordi, Milan, 1976; [Bussotti: Cinque frammenti autobiografici, p. 13, the libretto of "Nottetempo", interviews and essays].
- Esposito, Luigi. "Un male incontenibile – Sylvano Bussotti artista senza confini", Bietti, Milano, 2013.
- La Face, Giuseppina. Teatro, eros e segno nell'opera di Sylvano Bussotti, in: Rivista Italiana di Musicologia 9 (1974), pp. 250–268.
- Lucioli, Alessandra. Sylvano Bussotti, Targa Italiana Editrice, Milan, 1988.
- Maehder, Jürgen, and Sylvano Bussotti. Turandot, Pisa (Giardini) 1983.
- Maehder, Jürgen. BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET ─ Sviluppi della drammaturgia musicale bussottiana, in: Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana 18 (1984), pp. 441–468.
- Maehder, Jürgen. BUSSOTTIOPERABALLET ─ Zur Entwicklung der musikalischen Dramaturgie im Werk Sylvano Bussottis, in: Otto Kolleritsch (ed.), Oper heute. Formen der Wirklichkeit im zeitgenössischen Musiktheater, Studien zur Wertungsforschung vol. 16, Universal Edition, Vienna and Graz, 1985, pp. 188–216.
- Maehder, Jürgen. "Odo un Sylvano" ─ Zur Rolle des Komponisten, Regisseurs, Bühnen-und Kostümbildners Sylvano Bussotti im zeitgenössischen Musiktheater, Programmheft der Frankfurter Feste, Alte Oper, Frankfurt 1991, pp. 16–63.
- Maehder, Jürgen. ""Bussotti, Sylvano". The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4 vols., edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1992.
- Maehder, Jürgen. Zitat, Collage, Palimpsest ─ Zur Textbasis des Musiktheaters bei Luciano Berio und Sylvano Bussotti, in Hermann Danuser and Matthias Kassel (eds.), Musiktheater heute. Internationales Symposion der Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel 2001, Schott, Mainz 2003, p. 97–133.
- Morini, Luciano. Moda e musica nei costumi di Sylvano Bussotti, Idealibri, Milan 1984; German edition: Aldo Premoli/Luciano Morini: Träume in Samt und Seide. Mystik und Realität in den Opernkostümen des Sylvano Bussotti, Edition Wissenschaft & Literatur, Marketing-und-Wirtschaft Verlagsgesellschaft Flade, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-922804-09-8.
- Osmond-Smith, David. "Bussotti, Sylvano". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001.
- Pinzauti, Leonardo. A colloquio con Sylvano Bussotti, in: Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana 4/1970, pp. 898–909.
- Stoïanova, Ivanka. Geste ─ texte ─ musique, Éditions 10/18, Paris 1978.
- Stoïanova, Ivanka. Mythos und Gedächtnis. Bemerkungen über das italienische Musiktheater: Luciano Berio ─ "Outis" und Sylvano Bussotti ─ "Tieste", in: Otto Kolleritsch (ed.), Das Musiktheater ─ Exempel der Kunst, Studien zur Wertungsforschung vol. 38, Universal Edition, Vienna and Graz, 2001, pp. 161–191.
- Stoïanova, Ivanka. Entre détermination et aventure. Essais sur la musique de la deuxième moitié du XXeme siècle, L'Harmattan, Paris, 2004.
- Stoïanova, Ivanka. Sylvano Bussotti: B. O. B.—Bussottioperaballet/Stratégies dissipatives dans "Questo fauno" et "Tieste". In Musiques vocales en Italie depuis 1945, edited by Pierre Michel and Gianmario Borio, pp. 29–60. Collection Recherche, edited by Sophie Stevance. Notre Dame de Bliquetuit: Millénaire III Éditions, 2005. ISBN 2-911906-11-X.
External links
- Official website
- Sylvano Bussotti discography at Discogs
- Sylvano Bussotti at IMDb