Luciano Berio

Luciano Berio

Luciano BerioLuciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (October 24, 1925 – May 27, 2003) was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia for voices and orchestra and his series of numbered solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.

Berio's electronic work dates for the most part from his time at Milan's Studio di Fonologia. One of the most influential works he produced there was Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958), based on Cathy Berberian reading from James Joyce's Ulysses. A later work, Visage (1961) sees Berio creating a wordless emotional language by cutting up and rearranging a recording of Cathy Berberian's voice.

In 1968, Berio completed O King a work which exists in two versions: one for voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, the other for eight voices and orchestra. The piece is in memory of Martin Luther King, who had been assassinated shortly before its composition. In it, the voice(s) intones first the vowels, and then the consonants which make up his name, only stringing them together to give his name in full in the final bars.

The orchestral version of O King was, shortly after its completion, integrated into what is perhaps Berio's most famous work, Sinfonia (1967–69), for orchestra and eight amplified voices. The voices are not used in a traditional classical way; they frequently do not sing at all, but speak, whisper and shout. The third movement is a collage of literary and musical quotations. A-Ronne (1974) is similarly collaged, but with the focus more squarely on the voice. It was originally written as a radio program for five actors, and reworked in 1975 for eight vocalists and an optional keyboard part. The work is one of a number of collaborations with the poet Edoardo Sanguineti, who for this piece provided a text full of quotations from sources including the Bible, T. S. Eliot and Karl Marx.

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notturno ehoh (113)
4556d ago
51 Cello, Violin, Viola Original
Linea for 2 pianos, vibraphone and marimba chungmusic (17)
4834d ago
56 Piano Original
les mots sont alles Watsonboy (8)
4851d ago
2 Cello Original
O King lamagist (92)
4865d ago
12 Piano, Cello, Violin, Clarinet, Vocal Original
Luciano Berio prblase (49)
4876d ago
4 Bass Original
Sequenza per flauto solo jonyjona (3)
4899d ago
7 Flute Original
6 encores dimdimd (26)
4923d ago
20 Piano Original
seqeunza ilankozlov (7)
4949d ago
3 Flute Book
sequnza ilankozlov (7)
4949d ago
3 Flute Book
Sequenza IX b for alto saxophone (1981) polifem (1)
4953d ago
10 Saxophone Original
Circles Judith.Qu (2)
4959d ago
13 Vocal, Harp Other
Naturale dmitri2 (1)
4961d ago
32 Viola, Percussion Original
Sequenza III per voce femminile kvitske (5)
4965d ago
5 Piano, Vocal Original
Sequenza VII - Per oboe solo gonzalopc (2)
4975d ago
3 Flute, Horn Original
Sequenza I gonzalopc (2)
4975d ago
7 Flute Original
feuerklavier jose1358 (1)
4984d ago
7 Piano Original
Sequenza IX bartokiano (1)
4985d ago
20 Clarinet Original
Sonata leolb (8)
4996d ago
2 Piano Transcription
6 encores nciatara (3)
4998d ago
20 Piano Original
Sequenza XI for guitar cordobaba (43)
5016d ago
14 Guitar Original