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Berio, Luciano

Composer

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Selected compositions

Sources

One of the most important composers of the twentieth century, Luciano Berio took classical music out of the age of the traditional orchestral instruments and into the world of electronic music made with computers and tape. Not only did he combine instrumental performance with pre-recorded sounds and/or music on tape, giving the tape recorder an role equal to other instruments, he also created new kinds of pieces by electronically manipulating recordings of instruments or voices.

Ironically, Berio’s interest in electronic music—he saw it as the musical wave of the future—was accompanied by a deep interest in traditional folk music and in singing. His goal was to extend the range of vocal music and the spoken word by meshing them with the musical structure. To achieve this, he frequently set to music experimental literary texts, by writers like James Joyce, Italo Calvino, e.e. cummings, and Samuel Beckett.

Berio was born on October 24, 1925 in Oneglia, Italy, to a family that

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Luciano Berio

Documents

Bibliographie sélective

  • Philippe ALBÈRA (sous la dir. de), Contrechamps n° 1: Luciano Berio, Lausanne, L’Âge d’Homme, septembre 1983.
  • Philippe ALBÈRA, « Introduction aux neuf Sequenzas », dans Contrechamps n° 1 : Luciano Berio (Philippe Albèra, sous la dir. de), Lausanne, L’Âge d’Homme, septembre 1983, p. 90-122.
  • Philippe ALBÈRA, Jacques DEMIERRE, « Entretien avec Luciano Berio » dans Contrechamps n° 1 : Luciano Berio (Philippe Albèra, sous la dir. de), Lausanne, L’Âge d’Homme, septembre 1983, p. 60-66.
  • Luciano BERIO, Entretiens avec Rossana Dalmonte, traduit de l’italien et présenté par Martin Kaltenecker, Paris, Jean-Claude Lattès, coll. « Musiques & Musiciens », 1983, éd. originale : Intervista sulla musica, 1981, nouvelle éd. : Contrechamps, 2010.
  • Luciano BERIO, « Prospective musicale, recherche et activité du Studio de phonologie musicale de Radio-Milan », dans « Dossier Berio », Paris, Seuil, Musique en jeu n° 15, 1974, p. 60-63 [éd. ori. en ital. trad. présente Michèle Victor].
  • Luciano BERIO, « Aspects d’un artisanat formel
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    Luciano Berio

    Italian composer (1925–2003)

    Luciano Berio

    Berio in the 1970s

    Born(1925-10-24)24 October 1925

    Oneglia, Italy

    Died27 May 2003(2003-05-27) (aged 77)

    Rome, Italy

    WorksList of compositions

    Luciano BerioOMRI (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza), and for his pioneering work in electronic music. His early work was influenced by Igor Stravinsky and experiments with serial and electronic techniques, while his later works explore indeterminacy and the use of spoken texts as the basic material for composition.[1]

    Biography

    Berio was born in Oneglia (now part of Imperia), on the Ligurian coast of Italy. He was taught piano by his father and grandfather, who were both organists. During World War II, he was conscripted into the army, but on his first day, he injured his hand while learning how a gun worked and spent time in a military hospital.

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