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Luigi Dallapiccola
Person · male · Italy · Pazin · born 1904 · died 1975 · recording since 1990
Italian composer (1904–1975)
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Also known as 路易吉·达拉皮科拉
Timeline
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1900s
1970s
1990s
· Debut release
Debut release: Il prigioniero / Cinque canti / Preghiere
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Album: Luigi Dallapiccola: The Solo Piano Music / Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco: 5 Piano Pieces
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2000s
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Album: Tartiniana / Due Pezzi / Variazioni Per Orchestra / Piccola Musica Notturna / Frammenti Sinfonici Dal Balletto «Marsia»
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Album: Sonatina canonica / Tartiniana seconda / Due Studi / Quaderno Musicale Di Annalibera
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2010s
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Album: Three Questions with Two Answers / Piccola Musica Notturna / Due Pezzi per Orchestra / Variazioni per Orchestra / Partita per Orchestra
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2020s
Biography
English biography1,659 words · 6 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1347804369
Biography
Luigi Dallapiccola (3 February 1904 – 19 February 1975) was an Italian composer and pianist known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.
Biography
Dallapiccola was born in Pisino d'Istria, Austria-Hungary (current Pazin, Croatia), to Italian parents.
Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, his early musical career was irregular at best. Political disputes over his birth region of Istria led to instability and frequent moves. His father was headmaster of an Italian-language school – the only one in the city – which was shut down at the start of World War I. The family, considered politically subversive, was placed in internment at Graz, Austria, where the budding composer did not even have access to a piano, though he did attend performances at the local opera house which cemented his desire to pursue composition as a career. Once back in Pisino after the war, he travelled frequently. Dallapiccola took his piano degree at the Florence Conservatory in the 1920s. He also studied composition with Vito Frazzi.
He became a professor at the conservatory in 1931; until his 1967 retirement, he spent his career there teaching lessons in piano as a secondary instrument, replacing his teacher Ernesto Consolo as the older man's illness prevented him from continuing. Dallapiccola's students included Abraham Zalman Walker, Luciano Berio, Bernard Rands, Donald Martino, Halim El-Dabh, Julia Perry, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Arlene Zallman, Roland Trogan, Noel Da Costa, and Raymond Wilding-White. See: List of music students by teacher: C to F#Luigi Dallapiccola.
Dallapiccola's early experiences under the fascist regime of Benito Mussolini coloured his outlook and output for the rest of his life. He once supported Mussolini, believing the regime's propaganda, and it was not until the 1930s that he became passionate about his political views, in response to the Second Italo-Ethiopian War and Italy's involvement in the Spanish Civil War. Mussolini's sympathy with Adolf Hitler's views on race, which threatened Dallapiccola's Jewish wife Laura Luzzatto, only hardened his stance. Canti di prigionia and Il prigioniero are reflections of this impassioned concern; the former was his first true protest work.
During World War II he was in the dangerous position of opposing the Nazis, though he tried to go about his career as usual, and did to a limited extent. On two occasions he was forced to go into hiding for several months. He continued his touring as a recitalist, but only in countries not occupied by the Nazis.
After the war, his compositions first made it into the public eye, with his opera Il prigioniero, premiered in 1949, sparking his fame. He made frequent travels to the United States, including appearances at Tanglewood in the summers of 1951 and 1952 and several semesters of teaching courses in composition at Queens College in New York City beginning in 1956. He was a sought-after lecturer throughout Western Europe and the Americas. Dallapiccola's 1968 opera Ulisse would be the peak of his career, after which his compositional output was sparse; his later years were largely spent writing essays rather than music.
He finished no further compositions after 1972 due to his failing health; he died in Florence in 1975 of pulmonary edema. There are, however, very few sketches and fragments of work from this period, including a vocal work left unfinished just hours before his death.
Music
It was Richard Wagner's music that inspired Dallapiccola to start composing in earnest, and Claude Debussy's that caused him to stop: hearing Wagner's Der fliegende Holländer while exiled in Austria convinced him that composition was his calling, but after first hearing Debussy in 1921, at age 17, he stopped composing for three years in order to give this important influence time to sink in. The neoclassical works of Ferruccio Busoni would figure prominently in his later work, but his biggest influence would be the ideas of the Second Viennese School, which he encountered in the 1930s, particularly Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Dallapiccola's works of the 1920s, the period of his adherence to fascism, have been withdrawn with the instruction that they never be performed, though they still exist under controlled access for study.
His works widely use the serialism developed and embraced by his idols; he was, in fact, the first Italian to write in the method, and the primary proponent of it in Italy, and he developed serialist techniques to allow for a more lyrical, tonal style. Throughout the 1930s his style developed from a diatonic style with bursts of chromaticism to a consciously serialist outlook. He went from using twelve-tone rows for melodic material to structuring his works entirely serially. With the adoption of serialism, he never lost the feel for melody that many of the detractors of the Second Viennese School claimed to be absent in modern dodecaphonic music. His disillusionment with Mussolini's regime effected a change in his style: after the Abyssinian campaign, he claimed that his writing would no longer ever be as light and carefree as it once was. While there are later exceptions, particularly the Piccolo concerto per Muriel Couvreux, this is largely the case.
Liriche Greche (1942–45), for solo voice with instruments, would be his first work composed entirely in this twelve-tone style, composed concurrently with his last original purely diatonic work, the ballet Marsia (1943). The following decade showed a refinement in his technique and the increasing influence of Webern's work. After this, from the 1950s on, the refined, contemplative style he developed would characterize his output, in contrast to the more raw and passionate works of his youth. Most of his works would be songs for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment. His touch with instrumentation is noted for its impressionistic sensuality and soft textures, heavy on sustained notes by woodwinds and strings (particularly middle-range instruments, such as the clarinet and viola).
The politically charged Canti di prigionia for chorus and ensemble was the beginning of a loose triptych on the highly personal themes of imprisonment and injustice; the one-act opera Il prigioniero and the cantata Canti di liberazione completed the trilogy. Of these, Il prigioniero (1944–48) has become Dallapiccola's best-known work. It tells the chilling story of a political prisoner whose jailor, in an apparent gesture of fraternity, allows him to escape from his cell. At the moment of his freedom, however, he finds he has been the victim of a cruel practical joke as he runs straight into the arms of the Grand Inquisitor, who smilingly leads him off to the stake at which he is to be burned alive. The opera's pessimistic outlook reflects Dallapiccola's complete disillusionment with fascism (which he had naïvely supported when Mussolini first came to power) and the music contained therein is both beautifully realized and supremely disquieting.
His final opera Ulisse, with his own libretto after Homer's Odyssey, was the culmination of his life's work. It was composed over eight years, including and developing themes from his earlier works, and was his last large-scale composition.
List of works
Partita (1930–32), orchestra
Estate (1932), male chorus
Divertimento in quattro esercizi (1934), soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, viola, cello
Musica per tre pianoforti (Inni) (1935), three pianos
Sei cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (1932–36), 1st series: unaccompanied mixed voices; 2nd series: two sopranos and two altos and 17 instruments; 3rd series: mixed voices and orchestra
Tre laudi (1936–37), voice and 13 instruments
Volo di Notte (1938), one-act opera
Canti di prigionia (1938–41), for chorus, two pianos, 2 harps and percussion (a: Preghiera di Maria Stuarda; b: Invocazione di Boezio; c: Congedo di Girolamo Savonarola)
Piccolo concerto per Muriel Couvreux (1939–41), piano and chamber orchestra
Studio sul Capriccio n. 14 di Niccolò Paganini (1942), piano
Marsia (1942–43), ballet
Frammenti sinfonici dal balletto Marsia (1942–43), orchestra
Liriche greche (1942–45), a: Cinque frammenti di Saffo, for voice and chamber orchestra; b: Due liriche di Anacreonte, for singer, piccolo clarinet, A clarinet, viola, piano; c: Sex Carmina Alcaei, for canenda voice, nonnullis comitantibus musicis
Il prigioniero (1944–48), opera.
Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945), for solo cello
Sonatina canonica, in mi bemolle maggiore, su Capricci di Niccolò Paganini, per pianoforte (1946), for piano
Rencesvals (1946), baritone and piano
Due studi (1946–47), violin and piano
Due pezzi (1947), orchestra (version of Due studi)
Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado (1948), soprano and piano
Tre episodi dal balletto Marsia (1949), piano
Tre poemi (1949), voice and chamber orchestra
Job (1950), sacra rappresentazione (mystery play)
Tartiniana (1951), violin and orchestra
Quaderno musicale di Annalibera (1952), solo piano, featuring the BACH motif
Goethe-Lieder (1953), for mezzo-soprano, piccolo clarinet, clarinet, and bass clarinet
Variazioni (1954), orchestra (version of Quaderno musicale di Annalibera)
Piccola musica notturna (1954), orchestra
Canti di liberazione (1951–55), for mixed chorus and orchestra
An Mathilde (1955), cantata for soprano and orchestra
Tartiniana seconda (1955–56), violin and piano, or violin and chamber orchestra
Cinque canti (1956), baritone and 8 instruments
Concerto per la notte di Natale dell'anno 1956 (1957), chamber orchestra and soprano
Requiescant (1957–58), chorus and orchestra
Dialoghi (1960), cello and orchestra
Piccola musica notturna (1960–61), chamber ensemble
Three Questions With Two Answers (1962), orchestra
Preghiere (1962), baritone and chamber orchestra
Parole di San Paolo (1964), voice and instruments
Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado (1964), version for soprano and chamber orchestra
Ulisse (1960–68), opera in a prologue and two acts
Sicut umbra... (1970), mezzo-soprano and 12 instruments
Tempus destruendi / Tempus aedificandi (1971), chorus
Ulisse. Suite dall'opera/A (1971), soprano, bass-baritone, orchestra
Ulisse. Suite dall'opera/B (1971), 3 sopranos, mezzo-soprano/alto, tenor, bass-baritone, chorus and orchestra
Commiato (1972), soprano and ensemble
Writings by Dallapiccola
Appunti. Incontri. Meditazioni., Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1970
Dallapiccola on Opera, Selected writings of Luigi Dallapiccola, Vol 1, Toccata Press (1987)
Writings in English on Dallapiccola
Raymond Fearn, The music of Luigi Dallapiccola. New York, Rochester, 2003
Edward Wilkinson, "An interpretation of serialism in the work of Luigi Dallapiccola". Phd diss., Royal Holloway, 1982
Ben Earle, "Musical modernism in Fascist Italy: Dallapiccola in the thirties", Phd diss., Cambridge, 2001
Lanza, Andrea (2008). "An Outline of Italian Instrumental Music in the 20th Century". Sonus. A Journal of Investigations into Global Musical Possibilities. 29/1: 1–21. ISSN 0739-229X.
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Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 33 | 91.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 18 | 86.3th |
| Studio albums | 16 | 95.1th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 19 | 93.4th |
| Recording span (years) | -15 | 8.4th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (18 release groups · 16 studio albums)
Albums · 16
Il prigioniero / Cinque canti / Preghiere
1990 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:13:32
1Il prigioniero: Prologo7:512Il prigioniero: Primo intermezzo corale1:463Il prigioniero: Atto unico: Scena prima7:174Il prigioniero: Atto unico: Scena seconda14:535Il prigioniero: Atto unico: Scena terza13:296Il prigioniero: Atto unico: Secondo intermezzo corale2:067Il prigioniero: Atto unico: Scena quarta6:548Cinque canti: Aspettiamo la stella mattutina1:409Cinque canti: Dorati uccelli2:3910Cinque canti: Acheronte1:5611Cinque canti: Dormono le crime dei monti3:5512Cinque canti: Ardano attraverso la notte1:3913Preghiere: Oscura vita2:4514Preghiere: Trasfigurato dal soffio della notte1:5515Preghiere: Dinnanzi al crocefisso2:47Canti di prigionia / Cinque frammenti di Saffo
1995 · studio album
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1Canti di prigionia: I. Preghiera di Maria Stuarda12:222Canti di prigionia: II. Invocazione di Boezio4:483Canti di prigionia: III. Congedo di Girolamo Savonarola10:044Cinque frammenti di Saffo: I. Largo2:215Cinque frammenti di Saffo: II. Mosso; scorrevole e molto flessibile0:506Cinque frammenti di Saffo: III. Lento; vagamente1:557Cinque frammenti di Saffo: IV. Allegretto molto comodo1:278Cinque frammenti di Saffo: V. Molto lento2:569Due liriche di Anacreonte: I. Canoni3:3610Due liriche di Anacreonte: II. Variazioni2:4911Sex carmina Alcaei: I. Expositio0:5712Sex carmina Alcaei: II. Canon perpetuus1:0713Sex carmina Alcaei: III. Canones diversi1:2614Sex carmina Alcaei: IV. Vago e leggero: Canon contrario motu1:2315Sex carmina Alcaei: V. Mosso, ma non tanto1:0816Sex carmina Alcaei: VI. Conclusio2:3117Tempus destruendi / Tempus aedificandi: I. Ploratus4:3818Tempus destruendi / Tempus aedificandi: II. Exhortatio6:2319Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane: I. Il coro delle Malmaritate5:1520Due cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il giovane: II. Il coro dei Malammogliati4:36Il prigioniero / Canti di prigionia
1995 · studio album
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Tracklist · 17 tracks · 1:09:17
1Il prigioniero: Prologue. "Ti rivedrò, mio figlio!" (La madre)3:072Il prigioniero: Prologue. Ballata "Vedo! Lo riconosco!" (La madre)3:363Il prigioniero: Prologue. Primo intermezzo corale "Fiat misericordia tua" (Chorus)1:394Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 1. "Ero solo. Tutt'era bulio" (Il prigioniero, la madre)5:555Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 2. "Solo. Son solo un'altra volta" (Il prigioniero, il carceriere)4:336Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 2. Aria "Sull'Oceano, sulla Schelda" (Il carceriere, il prigioniero)2:287Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 2. "Torna, sole, sulle città liberate!" (Il carceriere, il prigioniero)2:338Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 2. "No, no... vaneggio" (Il carceriere, il prigioniero)3:589Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 3. "Signore, aiutami a camminare" (Il prigioniero)2:0410Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 3. Ricercare primo super "Signore, aiutami a camminare". "Bulo, Silenzio" (Il prigioniero)1:5911Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 3. Ricercare secondo super "Fratello". "Non reggo" (Il prigioniero, due sacerdoti)3:0812Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 3. Ricercare terzo super Roelandt. "Quegli occhi mi guardavano" (Il prigioniero)3:0313Il prigioniero: Act I. Secondo intermezzo corale "Domine, labia mea aperies" (Chorus)1:5314Il prigioniero: Act I, Scene 4. "Alleluja!" (Il prigioniero, chorus, il grande inquisitore)6:0015Canti di prigionia: I. Preghiera di Maria Stuarda10:0116Canti di prigionia: II. Invocazione di Boezio4:4817Canti di prigionia: III. Congedo di Girolamo Savonarola8:32Luigi Dallapiccola: The Solo Piano Music / Mario Castelnuovo‐Tedesco: 5 Piano Pieces
1998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:13:53
1Sonatina canonica su "Capricci di Niccolo Paganini": 1. Allegretto comodo3:512Sonatina canonica su "Capricci di Niccolo Paganini": 2. Largo1:553Sonatina canonica su "Capricci di Niccolo Paganini": 3. Andante sostenuto1:594Sonatina canonica su "Capricci di Niccolo Paganini": 4. Alla marcia; moderato2:225Tre episodi dal balletto "Marsia": Angoscioso4:356Tre episodi dal balletto "Marsia": Ostinato3:567Tre episodi dal balletto "Marsia": Sereno5:248Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Simbolo3:149Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Accenti0:3010Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Contrapunctus primus1:2111Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Linee0:4912Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Contrapunctus secundus (Canon contrario motu)0:2713Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Fregi1:2014Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Andantino amoroso e contrapunctus tetius - Resolutio1:1415Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Ritmi1:1516Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Colore1:0017Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Ombre2:1418Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: Quartina1:4119Ricercare (sul nome di Luigi Dallapiccola): Preludio - Fanfara - Fuga7:1820Cipressi9:0521Alghe4:3622Il raggio verde6:3523I naviganti7:122003 · studio album
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Disc 11Ulisse. Prologue : 1er épisode (Calypso)6:082Ulisse. Prologue : 2ème épisode : Intermezzo sinfonico (Poséidon)1:273Ulisse. Prologue : 3ème épisode (Nausicaa)10:474Ulisse. Acte 1 : 1ère scène12:025Ulisse. Acte 1 : 2ème scène (Les lotophages)10:026Ulisse. Acte 1 : 3ème scène (Circé)11:037Ulisse. Acte 1 : 4ème scène (Les cimmériens)18:478Ulisse. Acte 1 : 5ème scène5:09Disc 21Ulisse. Acte 2 : Prologue0:532Ulisse. Acte 2 : 1ère scène (Ithaque)14:073Ulisse. Acte 2 : 2ème scène9:184Ulisse. Acte 2 : 3ème scène11:455Ulisse. Acte 2 : Intermezzo sinfonico2:306Ulisse. Acte 2 : Scène ultime (Epilogue)7:427[applause]0:382004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:13:08
1Tartiniana: I. Larghetto. Molto espressivo, ma semplice2:092Tartiniana: II. Allegro misurato2:533Tartiniana: III. Molto sostenuto - Più mosso e scorrevole, ma sempe serioso6:104Tartiniana: IV. Allegro assai, ma non precipitato3:395Due Pezzi: I. Sarabanda8:126Due Pezzi: II. Fanfare e Fuga4:147Piccola Musica Notturna9:008Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia: I. Danza Magica2:539Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia: II. Ostinato5:1410Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia: III. Sostenuto, ma deciso - Danza di Apollo3:0911Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia: IV. Ultima Danza di Marsia3:5912Frammenti Sinfonici dal Balletto Marsia: V. La Morete di Marsia4:5913Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione I. Quasi lento, misterioso3:3314Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione II. Allegro. con fuoco0:3815Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione III. Mosso, scorrevole1:2916Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione IV. Tranquillamente mosso0:5017Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione V. Poco allegretto, "alla Serenata"0:2818Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione VI. Molto lento, con espressione parlante1:2719Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione VII. Andantino amoroso1:0720Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione VIII. Allegro, con violenza1:3821Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione IX. Affettuoso. cullante1:2522Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione X. Grave2:2423Variazioni per Orchestra: Variazione XI. Molto lento, fantastico1:38Sonatina canonica / Tartiniana seconda / Due Studi / Quaderno Musicale Di Annalibera
2005 · studio album
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Tracklist · 27 tracks · 1:11:01
1Sonatina canonica After Paganini: I. Allegro comodo3:482Sonatina canonica After Paganini: II. Largo - Vivacissimo - Tempo I1:303Sonatina canonica After Paganini: III. Andante sostenuto2:004Sonatina canonica After Paganini: IV. Alla marcia: Moderato2:3053 Episodi: I. Angoscioso4:2063 Episodi: II. Ostinato3:5473 Episodi: III. Sereno5:158Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: I. Simbolo3:019Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: II. Accenti -0:3310Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: III. Contrapuntus primus1:1111Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IV. Linee -0:5412Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: V. Contrapunctus secundus0:2713Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VI. Fregi -1:1914Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VII. Andantino amoroso e contrapunctus tertius1:2015Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VIII. Ritmi -1:1116Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IX. Colore -1:1817Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: X. Ombre2:0618Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: XI. Quartina1:5719Musica per 3 pianoforti, "Inni": I. Allegro molto sostenuto2:4120Musica per 3 pianoforti, "Inni": II. Un poco adagio: Funebre5:1221Musica per 3 pianoforti, "Inni": III. Allegramente, ma solenne3:15222 Studi: I. Sarabanda5:23232 Studi: II. Fanfara e fuga4:2824Tartiniana seconda: I. Pastorale2:2125Tartiniana seconda: II. Tempo di bourree1:4326Tartiniana seconda: III. Presto: leggerissimo1:4727Tartiniana seconda: IV. Variazioni5:372010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 18 tracks · 1:07:20
1Partita: I. Passacaglia8:272Partita: II. Burlesca4:493Partita: III. Recitativo e Fanfara5:194Partita: IV. D Naenia B.M.V10:355Dialoghi: I. Minim = 403:366Dialoghi: II. Minim = 804:067Dialoghi: III. Minim = 403:168Dialoghi: IV. Crotchet = 1203:599Dialoghi: V. Minim = 404:1010Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado: I. La primavera ha venido (Version for Voice and Orchestra)1:0511Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado: II. Ayer sone que veia (Version for Voice and Orchestra)1:4512Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado: III. Senor, ya me arrancaste la que yo mas queria (Version for Voice and Orchestra)1:0913Quattro Liriche di Antonio Machado: IV. La primavera ha venido (Version for Voice and Orchestra)2:0214Three Questions with Two Answers: I. Sostenuto0:5815Three Questions with Two Answers: II. Moderato4:2316Three Questions with Two Answers: III. Impetuoso0:3717Three Questions with Two Answers: IV. Largamente3:4718Three Questions with Two Answers: V. Molto sostenuto3:172014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 44:56
1Il Prigioniero: Prologue8:062Il Prigioniero: Scene 15:523Il Prigioniero: Scene 214:004Il Prigioniero: Scene 311:435Il Prigioniero: Scene 45:152014 · studio album
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Tracklist · 23 tracks · 1:07:25
1Partita per orchestra: I. Passacaglia. Molto solenne7:002Partita per orchestra: II. Burlesca. Presto ma non troppo – Moderato – Tempo del principio4:493Partita per orchestra: III. Recitativo e Fanfara. Violento – Calmo – Molto mosso – Violento –4:254Partita per orchestra: IV. Naenia B.M.V. Molto tranquillo7:525Due Pezzi per orchestra: No. 1. Sarabanda. Lento, flessibile5:376Due Pezzi per orchestra: No. 2. Fanfara e Fuga. Mosso, ma non tanto – Allegro marcato4:157Piccola musica notturna: Molto tranquillo, ma senza trascinare6:498Variazioni per orchestra: I. Quasi lento, misterioso3:009Variazioni per orchestra: II. Allegro con fuoco0:3010Variazioni per orchestra: III. Mosso,scorrevale1:0611Variazioni per orchestra: IV. Tranquillamente mosso0:4512Variazioni per orchestra: V. Poco allegretto, ‘alla Serenata’0:2413Variazioni per orchestra: VI. Molto lento, con espressione parlante0:5514Variazioni per orchestra: VII. Andantino amoroso, esitando1:0315Variazioni per orchestra: VIII. Allegro, con violenza1:3116Variazioni per orchestra: IX. Affettuoso, cullante1:0817Variazioni per orchestra: X. Grave2:1418Variazioni per orchestra: XI. Molto lento, fantastic1:2119Three Questions with Two Answers per orchestra: I. Sostenuto, sottovoce –0:5820Three Questions with Two Answers per orchestra: II. Moderato, tranquillo –4:1721Three Questions with Two Answers per orchestra: III. Impetuoso, violento –0:3922Three Questions with Two Answers per orchestra: IV. Largamente, sostenutissimo –3:5723Three Questions with Two Answers per orchestra: V. Molto sostenuto2:50Complete Solo Piano Music / Complete Music For Violin & Music
2015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 24 tracks · 1:03:59
1Tre episodi from Marsia for Piano: I. Angoscioso4:522Tre episodi from Marsia for Piano: II. Ostinato4:173Tre episodi from Marsia for Piano: III. Sereno5:324Sonatina canonica su "Capricci" di Niccolò Paganini for Piano: I. Allegretto comodo3:375Sonatina canonica su "Capricci" di Niccolò Paganini for Piano: II. Largo2:226Sonatina canonica su "Capricci" di Niccolò Paganini for Piano: III. Andante sostenuto2:537Sonatina canonica su "Capricci" di Niccolò Paganini for Piano: IV. Alla Marcia. Moderato2:298Due Studi for Violin and Piano: I. Sarabanda5:229Due Studi for Violin and Piano: II. Fanfara e fuga4:3710Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: I. Simbolo3:1911Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: II. Accenti0:3312Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: III. Contrapunctus primus1:2613Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: IV. Linee0:5414Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: V. Contrapunctus secundus0:2815Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: VI. Fregi1:3116Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: VII. Andantino amoroso e contrapunctus tertius1:2417Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: VIII. Ritmi1:0918Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: IX. Colore1:3319Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: X. Ombre2:1320Quaderno musicale di Annalibera for Piano: XI. Quartina2:0221Tartiniana seconda divertimento for Violin and Piano: I. Pastorale2:1222Tartiniana seconda divertimento for Violin and Piano: II. Tempo di bourrée1:3523Tartiniana seconda divertimento for Violin and Piano: III. Presto. Leggerissimo1:5124Tartiniana seconda divertimento for Violin and Piano: IV. Variazioni. a) Decisamente, b) Maestoso, c) Tranquillo, d) Doloroso, e) Alla sarabanda, f) Deciso. duramente, g) Con gagliardìa5:482015 · studio album
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Tracklist · 37 tracks · 1:29:41
Disc 11Selve Amiche2:422Vittoria, Mio Cuore1:453Lasciatemi Morire1:134Già Il Sole Dal Gange1:535Udite, Amandi2:186Sospiri de Foco1:037Bell Rose Pupurine2:498Bella Porta Di Rubini2:019Monologo Del Tempo3:2410Vergin, Tutto Amor1:5011Cara Mio Ben2:1212Stogava Con Le Stele1:5813Nel Puro Ador2:0414Di Misera Regina From "Il Ritorno Di Ulisse In Patria"10:2115Sento Nel Core3:1816Rencesvals, trois fragments de "La chanson de Roland": I. Molto Deciso. Alla Marcia2:5817Rencesvals, trois fragments de "La chanson de Roland": II. Il Doppio Più Lento2:1818Rencesvals, trois fragments de "La chanson de Roland": III. Molto Lento3:39Disc 21Amarilli2:502Che Fiero Costume1:443Danza, Danza, Fanciulla1:114Occhi Immortali3:565Son Ancor Pargoletta2:266O Cessate Di Piagarmi1:527Se Nel Ben Sempre Incostante0:518Occhietti Amati1:419Toglietemi La Vita Ancor1:4510Caldi Sospiri2:1911Sonetto Spirituale (Maddalena Alla Croce)3:0712Sonetto Spirituale In Stile Recitavo2:5913Illustratevi, O Cieli (From "Il Ritorno Di Ulisse In Patria")2:0114Vado Bene Spesso Cangiondo Loco2:4115Giorite Al Canto Mio0:5416Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: I. Mosso; Con Vivacità1:2317Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: II. Lento; Flessibile2:0118Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: III. Sostenutissimo1:5119Quattro liriche di Antonio Machado: IV. Quasi Adagio; Con Amarezza2:232020 · studio album
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Tracklist · 13 tracks · 55:46
1Il prigioniero: Ti rivedrò, mio figlio!6:172Il prigioniero: Fiat misericordia tua1:183Il prigioniero, Scene 1: Ero solo. Tutt’era buio5:514Il prigioniero, Scene 2: Solo. Son solo un’altra volta13:295Il prigioniero, Scene 3: Signore, aiutami a camminare1:156Il prigioniero, Scene 3: Buio. Silenzio. Come fra le tombe1:577Il prigioniero, Scene 3: Non reggo3:188Il prigioniero, Scene 3: Quegli occhi mi guardavano!3:189Il prigioniero, Scene 3: Domine, labia mea aperies1:2610Il prigioniero, Scene 4: Alleluja!5:08116 cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (First Series): No. 1, Il coro delle malmaritate4:37126 cori di Michelangelo Buonarroti il Giovane (First Series): No. 2, Il coro dei malammogliati4:3513Estate3:172021 · studio album
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Tracklist · 35 tracks · 1:22:53
Disc 11Partita: I. Preludio. Allegro2:262Partita: II. Aria. Calmo con dolcezza2:533Partita: III. Gavotta. Moderato1:244Partita: IV. Giga. Vivace1:455Toccata: Adagio - più mosso - più lento - Presto - Adagio - Lento6:546Piccola invenzione: Andantino0:547Invenzioni: I. Presto volante - Poco meno - Presto1:188Invenzioni: II. Moderato - più presto, quasi allegro2:489Invenzioni: III. Presto, leggero1:4410Invenzioni: IV. Moderatamente mosso, scorrevole - Moderato2:4711Invenzioni: V. Andantino, non molto mosso e sereno - Calmo - Mosso4:0112Invenzioni: VI. Tranquillo2:3713Invenzioni: VII. Scorrevole2:4014Invenzioni: VIII. Allegretto e grazioso2:1915Petit piece: Allegretto e grazioso, con spirito1:4716Oh les beaux jours!: I. Bagatelle. Andantino, un poco mosso - Allegretto pesante3:2117Oh les beaux jours!: II. Le petit chat. Allegro - Vivace leggerissimo - Presto3:26Disc 21Sonatina canonica su "capricci" di Niccolò Paganini: I. Allegro Comodo - Allegro molto misurato - I. Tempo3:412Sonatina canonica su "capricci" di Niccolò Paganini: II. Largo - Vivacissimo - Largo1:583Sonatina canonica su "capricci" di Niccolò Paganini: III. Andante sostenuto2:264Sonatina canonica su "capricci" di Niccolò Paganini: IV. Alla marcia. Moderato2:125Tre episodi dal balletto Marsia: I. Angoscioso4:296Tre episodi dal balletto Marsia: II. Ostinato3:527Tre episodi dal balletto Marsia: III. Sereno4:598Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: I. Simbolo3:239Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: II. Accenti0:3410Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: III. Contrapunctus primus1:1011Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IV. Linee0:4412Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: V. Contrapunctus secundus0:2413Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VI. Fregi1:1914Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VII. Andantino amoroso e contrapunctus tertius0:5815Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VIII. Ritmi1:1416Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IX. Colore0:5917Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: X. Ombre1:5018Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: XI. Quartina1:372024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 31 tracks · 59:02
1Duetto no. 1 in E minor, BWV 8022:492Duetto no. 2 in F major, BWV 8033:013Duetto no. 3 in G major, BWV 8042:304Duetto no. 4 in A minor, BWV 8052:235Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: No. 10. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring3:376Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: I. Simbolo2:357Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: II. Accenti0:278Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: III. Contrapunctus primus1:029Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IV. Linee0:4310Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: V. Contrapunctus segundus0:2611Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VI. Fregi0:5912Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VII. Andantino amoroso e contrapunctus tertius0:5913Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: VIII. Ritmi1:0614Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: IX. Colore1:1615Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: X. Ombre2:4416Quaderno musicale di Annalibera: XI. Quartina1:491713 Canons at Each Interval: No. 1. Recitativo. Canon at the Unison0:431813 Canons at Each Interval: No. 2. Alla marcia. Canon at the Minor Second0:281913 Canons at Each Interval: No. 3. Comico. Inversion Canon at the Major Second0:522013 Canons at Each Interval: No. 4. Sognando. Modulating Canon at the Minor Third0:362113 Canons at Each Interval: No. 5. Waltz burleske. Canon at the Major Third0:382213 Canons at Each Interval: No. 6. Agitato. Canon at the Perfect Fourth1:072313 Canons at Each Interval: No. 7. Allegro sarcastico. Canon at the Tritone0:472413 Canons at Each Interval: No. 8. Grave. Canon at the Perfect Fifth1:072513 Canons at Each Interval: No. 9. Scherzando. Canon at the Minor Sixth0:432613 Canons at Each Interval: No. 10. Tranquillo. Canon at the Major Sixth0:522713 Canons at Each Interval: No. 11. Tumultuoso. Retrograde Canon at the Minor Seventh0:282813 Canons at Each Interval: No. 12. Misterioso. Augmentation Canon at the Major Seventh0:492913 Canons at Each Interval: No. 13. Recitativo. Allegro furioso. Canon at the Octave3:12304 Studies on Basic Rows, op. 23: No. 4. Passacaglia14:3131Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: No. 10. Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring3:43War Silence: Rare Italian Piano Concertos
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1Andante e Allegro con fuoco: I. Andante –4:322Andante e Allegro con fuoco: II. Allegro con fuoco8:473Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: I. Pastorale. Andantino, un poco flessibile2:284Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: II. Girotondo. Allegro ma non tanto, molto ritmato –2:245Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: III. Ripresa. Moderato, con poesia4:166Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: IV. Candeza. Allegro, molto sostenuto –2:517Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: V. Notturno. Lentamente5:038Piccolo Concerto per Muriel Couvreux: VI. Finale. Allegro non troppo, marcato e sostenuto3:229Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra: I. Allegro7:0510Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra: II. Andante maestoso7:4311Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra: III. Allegro7:2512War Silence: I. Trenches7:4313War Silence: II. Solitudes7:1214War Silence: III. Fruts5:44
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| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
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| 2012 | Volo di notteSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 55:071Volo di notte: Scene 17:37 2Volo di notte: Scene 28:29 3Volo di notte: Scene 36:00 4Volo di notte: Scene 411:21 5Volo di notte: Scene 59:51 6Volo di notte: Scene 611:49 | Live | 30 January 2012 | |
| 2013 | Il prigionieroSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 6 tracks · 50:171Il prigioniero: I. Prologue and 1st Choral Intermezzo8:41 2Il prigioniero: II. Scene One6:36 3Il prigioniero: III. Scene Two15:15 4Il prigioniero: IV. Scene Three11:20 5Il prigioniero: V. Second Choral Intermezzo1:56 6Il prigioniero: VI. Scene Four6:29 | Live | 16 December 2013 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Luigi Dallapiccola head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 33 | 91.9th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 18 | 86.3th |
| Studio albums | 16 | 95.1th |
| Awards recorded | 1 | 89th |
| Timeline events | 19 | 93.4th |
| Recording span (years) | -15 | 8.4th |
| Genres | 6 | 91th |
Awards & honours
| Year | Award | Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| — | Honorary Member of the International Society for Contemporary Music | won |
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https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Dallapiccola
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Tier rule: historic figure (33 language versions, career ended)
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Wikidata: Q17575 · MusicBrainz: bfcbf9b0-0969-40b3-bc58-ba6174962f48
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