Fausto Romitelli was an Italian

Italy

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 composer.

Life and career

Romitelli studied composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and subsequently took part in courses at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni

Franco Donatoni was an Italian composer.Born in Verona, he started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local Music Academy...

 and at the Scuola Civica di Milano. He moved to Paris in 1991, where he became a student of Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt

Hugues Dufourt is a French composer and philosopher associated with the Spectral school of composition. Born in Lyon on September 28 1943, Dufourt studied piano and composition at the Geneva Conservatory....

 and Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey

Gérard Grisey was a French composer of contemporary music.-Biography:Gérard Grisey was born in Belfort, France on 17 June 1946. He studied at the Trossingen Conservatory in Germany from 1963 to 1965 before entering the Conservatoire de Paris...

. From 1993 to 1995 he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM

IRCAM

IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...

.

Romitelli achieved successes in numerous European competitions and his music has been performed at festivals such as the Festival d’Automne (Paris), Ultima Helsinki, Steirischen Herbst (Graz), Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

 and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. His visionary video opera An Index of Metals (2003) was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize of Italian music critics in 2004.

He died aged 41 in 2004 following a long battle with cancer.

1980s

• Dia Nykta for solo flute, 1982
• Solare for solo guitar, 1983
• Furit aestus for soprano and instrumental quintet, 1985
• Ganimede for solo viola, 1986
• Have your trip for harp, guitar and mandolin, 1988-89
• Kû for 14 performers, 1989

1990s

• Nell'alto dei giorni immobili for 6 performers, 1990
• Natura morta con fiamme for string quartet and electronics, 1991
• La Lune et les eaux for 2 guitars, 1991
• La sabbia del tempo for 6 performers, 1991
• Mediterraneo - I. Les idoles du soleil for ensemble, 1992
• Mediterraneo - II. L'azur des déserts for voice and 14 instruments, 1992-93
• Your time is over for cello and ensemble, 1993
• Golfi d'ombra for solo percussion, 1993
• Acid Dreams and Spanish Queens for ensemble, 1994
• Seascape for contrabass flute, 1994
• EnTrance for soprano, ensemble and electronics, 1995
• Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero. Prima domenica for 4 instruments, 1995-96
• Cupio Dissolvi for 14 performers, 1996
• The Nameless City for strings and bells ad libitum, 1997
• Lost for voice and 15 instruments, 1997
• Music for Lászlo Moholy-Nagy
  László Moholy-Nagy
  László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology and industry into the arts.-Early life:...
  
  's film Ein Lichtspiel, schwarz-weiss-grau for recorder, double bass, guitar, percussion and piano, 1997
• Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I for 8 performers and electronics, 1998
• Professor Bad Trip: Lesson II for ensemble, 1998-99
• The Poppy in the Cloud for choir and ensemble, 1999

2000s

• Professor Bad Trip: Lesson III for ensemble, 2000
• Blood on the Floor, Painting 1986 for ensemble, 2000
• Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero. Seconda domenica: hommage à Gérard Grisey for 4 instruments, 2000
• Flowing down too slow for string orchestra, percussion and bells, 2001
• Amok Koma for ensemble and electronics, 2001
• Chorus for percussionists, 2001
• Trash TV Trance for electric guitar, 2002
• An Index of Metals, video opera for soprano, ensemble, multiple projections and electronics (Text: Kenka Lekovich, Video: Paolo Pachini, Leonardo Romoli, 2003
• Dead City Radio Audiodrome for orchestra, 2003
• Green, Yellow and Blue for ensemble, 2003

Discography

• Fausto Romitelli, Cupio dissolvi, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, MGB, 2008, (with works by Jim Grimm, Beat Furrer
  Beat Furrer
  Beat Furrer is an Austrian composer and conductor of Swiss birth.Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Furrer relocated to Vienna in 1975 to pursue studies with Roman Haubenstock-Ramati and Otmar Suitner . In 1985 he co-founded what is now one of Europe's leading contemporary music ensembles,...
  
  , Jorge Sanchez-Chiong and Alex Buess), MGB 110.
• Fausto Romitelli, Audiodrome [orchestral works] : Dead City Radio. Audiodrome ; EnTrance ; Flowing Down Too Slow ; The Nameless City, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI with Peter Rundel, Stradivarius, 2005, STR33723.
• Fausto Romitelli, Paolo Pachini, An Index of Metals, Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble is a Belgian orchestra, founded by Jean-Luc Plouvierin 1994, specialising in Contemporary classical music...
  
   with Georges-Elie Octors (conductor) and Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano), Cyprès, 2003.
• Fausto Romitelli, Professor Bad Trip, Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble
  Ictus Ensemble is a Belgian orchestra, founded by Jean-Luc Plouvierin 1994, specialising in Contemporary classical music...
  
  , Cyprès, 2003.

Sources

• IRCAM
  IRCAM
  IRCAM is a European institute for science about music and sound and avant garde electro-acoustical art music. It is situated next to, and is organizationally linked with, the Centre Pompidou in Paris...
  
  . Biographie: Fausto Romitelli.
• SMQC. Fausto Romitelli.