Bruno Bettinelli
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Bruno Bettinelli was an Italian
composer
and teacher.
where he later completed his studies at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan, under the tutelage of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Renzo Bossi. He held the title of professor of composition at that same institute, and he trained many notable contemporary Italian musicians, including Claudio Abbado
, Emiliano Bucci
, Elisabetta Brusa
, Gilberto Serembe, Danilo Lorenzini, Bruno Canino
, Aldo Ceccato
, Riccardo Chailly
, Azio Corghi
, Armando Gentilucci, Riccardo Muti
, Angelo Paccagnini, Bruno Zanolini, Silvia Bianchera, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Caterina Calderoni, Barbara Rettagliati, Massimo Berzolla, Maurizio Pollini, Uto Ughi
and many others. He also taught the Italian singer-songwriter Gianna Nannini
.
He received many international awards for composition, including a prize from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the 1940s. He has also worked in musicology and music criticism.
His compositions are currently performed all over the world. Bettinelli's music is published primarily by Ricordi, Suvini Zerboni, and Sonzogno.
Bruno Bettinelli died in Milan in 2004 at the age of 91.
As a memoriam to Bruno Bettinelli, Milan's Edizioni Musicali European (EME), in collaborations with the magazines "Cartellina" and "Chorus," established a national competition for choral composition in his name.
, Paul Hindemith
, and Béla Bartók
, not to mention the Italian composers Alfredo Casella
, Goffredo Petrassi
and Gian Francesco Malipiero
.
His later music evolved constantly, incorporating new elements, such as atonality and 12-tone music, to blend it into a free chromatic language, always expressing formal structures.
Of particular note are his choral works, as he collected and set many traditional Italian folk songs that had heretofore only survived through oral tradition.
Italy
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composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and teacher.
Biography
Bruno Bettinelli was born in MilanMilan
Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...
where he later completed his studies at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan, under the tutelage of Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Renzo Bossi. He held the title of professor of composition at that same institute, and he trained many notable contemporary Italian musicians, including Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado
Claudio Abbado, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI , is an Italian conductor. He has served as music director of the La Scala opera house in Milan, principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Vienna State Opera,...
, Emiliano Bucci
Emiliano Bucci
Emiliano Bucci is a pianist, teacher of piano, musicology doctor, electronic composer, sound engineer, music professor in the middle school, Film-Maker.- Study :Emiliano Bucci was born in Avezzano, L'Aquila, Italy...
, Elisabetta Brusa
Elisabetta Brusa
Elisabetta Olga Laura Brusa is an Italian composer.Brusa was born in Milan, and as a child wrote 32 piano pieces. At the Milan Conservatory she formally studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli, and Azio Corghi, graduating in 1980...
, Gilberto Serembe, Danilo Lorenzini, Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...
, Aldo Ceccato
Aldo Ceccato
Aldo Ceccato is an Italian conductor. He has worked as assistant to Sergiu Celibidache and was music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1973 until 1977. He was music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1985 until 1990...
, Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly
Riccardo Chailly, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor. He started his career as an opera conductor and gradually extended his repertoire to encompass symphonic music.-Biography:...
, Azio Corghi
Azio Corghi
Azio Corghi is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli...
, Armando Gentilucci, Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti
Riccardo Muti, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI is an Italian conductor and music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.-Childhood and education:...
, Angelo Paccagnini, Bruno Zanolini, Silvia Bianchera, Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, Caterina Calderoni, Barbara Rettagliati, Massimo Berzolla, Maurizio Pollini, Uto Ughi
Uto Ughi
Diodato "Uto" Ughi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1992-1997...
and many others. He also taught the Italian singer-songwriter Gianna Nannini
Gianna Nannini
Gianna Nannini is an Italian female singer-songwriter and pop musician. She may be best known for her 1986 song "Bello e Impossibile".-Personal life:...
.
He received many international awards for composition, including a prize from Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the 1940s. He has also worked in musicology and music criticism.
His compositions are currently performed all over the world. Bettinelli's music is published primarily by Ricordi, Suvini Zerboni, and Sonzogno.
Bruno Bettinelli died in Milan in 2004 at the age of 91.
As a memoriam to Bruno Bettinelli, Milan's Edizioni Musicali European (EME), in collaborations with the magazines "Cartellina" and "Chorus," established a national competition for choral composition in his name.
Music
An author of symphonic, choral, opera, and chamber music, his younger works incorporated a contrapuntal neoclassicism, influenced heavily by Igor StravinskyIgor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....
, Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith
Paul Hindemith was a German composer, violist, violinist, teacher, music theorist and conductor.- Biography :Born in Hanau, near Frankfurt, Hindemith was taught the violin as a child...
, and Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...
, not to mention the Italian composers Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.- Life and career :Casella was born in Turin; his family included many musicians; his grandfather, a friend of Paganini's, was first cello in the San Carlo Theatre in Lisbon and eventually was soloist in the Royal Chapel in Turin...
, Goffredo Petrassi
Goffredo Petrassi
Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.-Life:...
and Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero
Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...
.
His later music evolved constantly, incorporating new elements, such as atonality and 12-tone music, to blend it into a free chromatic language, always expressing formal structures.
Of particular note are his choral works, as he collected and set many traditional Italian folk songs that had heretofore only survived through oral tradition.
List of works
Polyphonic choral music
- Tre liriche corali di Ungaretti (Three choral lyrics of Ungaretti) (1940)
- Liriche di Ungaretti for chorus a cappella (1971)
- Sono una creatura(I am a creature), cantata for chorus and orchestra, text by Giuseppe Ungaretti (1971)
- Poesie di Tiziana for female choir, text by Tiziana Fumagalli (1978)
- Cantata No 2 "In Nativitate Domini" for soprano and orchestra (1982)
- Cantata No 3 for chorus and orchestra, text by Thomas Campanella (1985)
- Tre mottetti (Three motets) for choir of mixed voices (1985)
- Dittico ambrosiano for choir of four voices (1997)
- Missa Brevis (1997)
- Vocalizzo su Amen for choir of four mixed voices (1997)
Other choral music
- Belina come te (Beautiful Like You) for four-part mixed choir (2001)
- E la bela de oflaga for four-part male choir (1985)
- Dormi o bel bambin (Sleep, o pretty baby) for four-part male choir (1985)
- La moretina for four-part male choir
- Alzando gli occhi al cielo (Raising the eyes to heaven) for four-part male choir (1998)
- L'erba rosa (The pink grass) for four-part male choir (1996)
- La cartolina for four-part male choir(1995)
- Varda i mori che bate le ore for four-part male choir (1996)
- Se la te domanda (If you ask it) for four-part male choir (1996)
- Tre canti popolari lombardi (Three popular Lombardi songs) for mixed choir: - Pover usellin - Ninna nanna del Bambin Gesù - Ciapa cinque
Instrumental music
- Improvisation for guitar (1970)
- Studio da concerto for solo clarinet (1971)
- Cinque Preludi (Five Preludes) for guitar (1971)
- Studio da concerto for harpsichord (1972)
- Musica per sette per gruppo da camera (Music for seven for chamber group) (1975)
- Due movimenti for viola and piano (1977)
- Etudes for guitar (1977)
- Studio da concerto for solo bassoon (1977)
- Divertimento a due for 2 guitars (1982)
- Musica a due for flute and guitar (1982)
- Come una cadenza for guitar (1983)
- Dialogo for flute and piano (1983)
- 5 + 5 for double mixed quintet (1984)
- Tre pezzi per pianoforte (Three pieces for piano) (1984)
- Studio da concerto for solo cello (1991)
- Trio for Strings (1993)
Orchestral music
- Choral obstinate for large orchestra (1938)
- Movimento sinfonico n. 1 for orchestra (1938)
- Sinfonia da camera in quattro tempi for orchestra (1938) (a.k.a. Symphony No. 1)
- Due invenzioni for string orchestra (1939)
- Concerto per orchestra in tre tempi (1940)
- Introduzione for string orchestra (1941)
- Fantasia e fuga su temi gregoriani (Fantasy and Fugue on Gregorian themes) for string orchestra (1944)
- Divertimento for small orchestra (1944)
- Concerto da camera for small orchestra (1952)
- Concerto for piano and orchestra (1952–1953)
- Sinfonia breve for orchestra (1954) (a.k.a. Symphony No. 4)
- Musica for string orchestra (1958)
- Preludio elegiaco (Elegiac Prelude) for orchestra (1959)
- Episodi for orchestra (1961–1962)
- Concerto for 2 pianos and chamber orchestra (1962)
- 3° Concerto for orchestra (1964)
- Concerto n. 2 for piano and orchestra (1968)
- Varianti for orchestra (1970)
- Studio for orchestra (1973)
- Sinfonia n. 5 for orchestra (1975)
- Sinfonia n. 6 for orchestra (1976)
- Sinfonia n. 7 for small orchestra (1978)
- Contrasti for orchestra (1979)
- Concerto for guitar and string orchestra with vibraphone ad libitum (1981)
- Quadruplum for orchestra (1981)
- Concerto for violin and orchestra (1982–1983)
- Alternanze for orchestra (1983)
- Omaggio a Stravinsky (Homage to Stravinsky) for chamber orchestra (1984)
- Strutture for small orchestra (1985)
- 4° Concerto for orchestra (1988)
- 3 Studi d'interpretazione for string orchestra (1990)
Operas
- Il pozzo e il pendolo (The Pit and the Pendulum), an opera in one act from Edgar Allan Poe (1957)
- La Smorfia, an opera in one act and two scenes, libretto by Riccardo Bacchelli (1959)
- Count down, an opera in one act, libretto by Antonello Madau Diaz (1969)
Further reading
- Elisabetta Gabellich, Linguaggio musicale di Bruno Bettinelli, with an introduction by Gianandrea GavazzeniGianandrea GavazzeniGianandrea Gavazzeni was an Italian pianist, conductor , composer and musicologist.Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, in 1966-68 being its music and artistic director.He had his Metropolitan Opera debut on 11...
, Guido Miano Editore, Milano (1989). - Bruno Bettinelli, La composizione musicale, Rugginenti Editore, Milano (1996). ISBN 88-7665-092-X
- Giulio Mercati, Bruno Bettinelli. Il cammino di un musicista, Rugginenti Editore, Milano (1998). ISBN 88-7665-138-1
- Pier Damiano Peretti, Frammenti d'infinito. La musica per organo di Bruno Bettinelli. Arte Organaria e Organistica 13, 2006, Nr. 61, 42-47.