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Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian[1] conductor and composer.

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Biography

Maderna was born in Venice. At the age of four he was taught violin in Chioggia, and his grandfather recognized the child's brilliance.[2] So began his career as a child prodigy. He was known in Italy and abroad as "Brunetto" (Italian for Little Bruno).[3]

He continued his studies in Milan (1935), Venice (1939) and in Rome (1940), where he finally took his degree in composition and musicology at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. At Rome he was instructed by Alessandro Bustini, but he also took a course of instruction from Antonio Guarnieri in Siena in 1941, and he then studied composition with Gian Francesco Malipiero in Venice in 1942-43.[4]

During World War II he joined the army, the Partisan Resistance.[5] After the War, 1947-1950, he taught composition at the Venice Conservatory at the invitation of Malipiero. In those years he taught a large class which included Luigi Nono, who had previously studied law.[6]

In 1948 (through Malipiero[7]) he met Hermann Scherchen, and Maderna and Luigi Nono both attended a course of instruction with him at Venice.[8] Scherchen set Maderna's direction towards dodecaphonic method.[9] He was invited to conduct at the (1951) Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt, where he took a founding initiative in the Internationales Kranichsteiner Kammer-Ensemble, a chamber-group which was newly re-convened every year as an ad-hoc-Ensemble.[10] Here he met (among others) Boulez, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Cage, Pousseur and the most important performers of the neue Musik, who inspired him to compose new pieces.

Maderna was a versatile director, capable of switching between different musical styles. He directed Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Wagner's Parsifal, many works by Debussy and Ravel, classical and romantic symphonies. Together with Luciano Berio, he founded the Studio di Fonologia Musicale of the RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana) in 1955[11]: they also organized the Incontri Musicali ('Musical Encounters') music review and concert series.[12]

In 1957-58 he taught dodecaphonic technique at the Milan Conservatory: in this period he also taught composition seminars at the Dartington's Summer School of Music (UK). From 1967 to 1970 he taught conducting at the Salzburg Mozarteum and also at the Rotterdam Conservatory. He become established at Darmstadt in 1963.[13]

He died in 1973 at Darmstadt, when he was about to rehearse Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Pierre Boulez wrote his Rituel in Memoriam Bruno Maderna the following year and Luciano Berio wrote "Calmo" for voice and orchestra in homage to his friend. His notable students include Rocco Di Pietro.

Works

Among the early works is the Concerto per due pianoforti e strumenti (1947-1948), influenced by the music of Bartók, which has a special approach towards difficult sonorities. In 1948 he composed his first serial work, the Liriche greche.[14] The Quartetto per archi in due tempi (of 1955) is an even more intensively serial piece.[15]

The flautist Severino Gazzelloni inspired Maderna during the Darmstadt experience. In 1961 he composed Honeyreves for flute and piano: this piece was built on complex flute melodies and on unusual piano sound effects (clusters, playing on the strings, etc.). In the Studio di Fonologia Musicale, with the help of sound technician Marino Zuccheri, he wrote some electroacoustic works: Musica su due dimensioni (Music on two dimensions, 1958) for flute and magnetic tape, Notturno (1956) and Continuo (1958) both for magnetic tape.

In 1962-63 Maderna wrote his First Oboe Concerto (Concerto for Oboe and Chamber Ensemble). In 1967 he wrote his Second Oboe Concerto, and in 1973 his Third.

One of his works is Quadrivium for four percussionists and four orchestral groups (played for the first time at the Royan Festival in 1969). A recording of this work, coupled with the composer's Aura and Biogramma, was made by the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under Giuseppe Sinopoli in 1979 and issued by Deutsche Grammophon.[16] Among various other compositions are an electro-acoustic divertimento Le Rire (1964), a "work in progress" called Hyperion, and an opera Satyricon.

Maderna was versatile: he also produced scores for five Italian movies released between 1946 and 1968.

Notes

  1. ^ Dalmonte 2001.
  2. ^ The thread of information in this article appears to be derived from the article in Italian Wikipedia.
  3. ^ Dalmonte 2001 (New Grove).
  4. ^ IRCAM (Centre Pompidou) Biographie of Maderna (external link): Short Biography in Madeleine Shapiro's Modernworks website (external links).
  5. ^ Stated in the Bach-cantatas Biography (external link).
  6. ^ Ircam Biographie of Luigi Nono (External links).
  7. ^ Sitsky 2002, 329.
  8. ^ Ircam Biographie of Luigi Nono (external links).
  9. ^ Britannica Online Encyclopedia, see [1]: Sitsky 2002, at p. 329: Ircam Biographie of Maderna (external links).
  10. ^ Hans Zender, in Interview with Roland Diry and Suzanne Laurentius, 'Neue Musik erwartet Selbstandigkeit,' Ensemble Modern Newsletter no. 24 (01/2007), see external link.
  11. ^ Ircam Biographie (external link), according to which it was in 1954.
  12. ^ Britannica Online Encyclopedia article.
  13. ^ Ircam Biographie of Maderna, external link.
  14. ^ Dalmonte 2001.
  15. ^ Dalmonte 2001.
  16. ^ (CD catalogue number 423 246-2 GC).

Bibliography

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