Luciano Berio biography

The country of Italy Luchano Berio Ital. Luciano Berio; October 24 - May 27 - Italian composer, conductor and teacher. Along with Boulez and Shtokhausen, it belongs to the most important composers of the avant-garde of the post-war generation. Born in the year in the family of musicians in the city of Empire, the Liguria region. Working as a pianist-concertmaster of the vocal classes, he met Katie Berbinan, an American singer of Armenian origin with an unusually wide range of voice, who owned various singing techniques.

She became the first wife of the composer, her unique voice inspired him to bold searches in vocal music. In the year he visited the United States, where he studied at the Tanglwood Music Center with Luigi Dallapicoli, who awakened Berio's interest in the Novovensky school and dodecafonia. In gg. Soon after, he moved away from Darmstadt technocracy; His work began to develop towards experimental stage, neo-folklorism, and the influence of surrealism, absurdism and structuralism-in particular, writers and thinkers as James Joyce, Samuel Levy-Strauss, Umberto Eco, began to intensify in it.

Having engaged in electronic music, in the year Berio founded a studio of musical phonology in Milan, where he invited famous composers - in particular, John Cage and Henri Puruser. Then he began to publish a magazine about electronic music called “Musical Meetings” by Incontri Musicali. In the year, he again left for the United States, where he was at first a “composer in a residence” in Tanglwood and at the same time led classes at the Dartington International Summer School, then taught at a Milf-college in the California Auckland, and after that at the Julian School in New York, where the Julyard ensemble of Juilliard Enesmble of modern music.

In the year in New York, the premiere of Berio symphony was very successful. He headed the department of electro -acoustic music at the Paris Institute of Research and Coordination of Acouge and Music IRCAM, founded by Boulez. In the year, he founded a similar music center in Florence entitled “Real Time” by Tempo Reale. He made a lecture cycle at Harvard University, and in the “Honorary Composer” Distinguished Composer in Residence of this university.

In this city, the composer died in the year. Berio's music is characterized by the use of mixed techniques, including both atonal and non -otonal elements, citation techniques and collages. He connected instrumental sounds with electronic noises and sounds of human speech, in X sought to an experimental theater. Then, under the influence of Levi-Strass, he turned to folklore: the result of this hobby was the "folk songs" written for the Berialan.

The series of “sequences” of Sequenza, each of which is written for one solo instrument or voice - like Sequenza III, created for Bernsyan, was a separate important genre in Berio's work.

In them, the composer connects new composer ideas with new expanded playing techniques on these tools. As Shtokhausen created his “clavirs” throughout his life, so Berio created 14 works in this genre for a year, reflecting the specifics of all his creative periods. Starting with x, Berio style experiences changes: elements of reflection and nostalgia are enhanced in his music.

Later, the composer devoted himself to the opera. Of great importance in his work are the processing of other composers - or essays, where he enters into dialogue with other people's musical material. He was an honorary member of the Royal Academy of Music London, an honorary foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, laureate of the music prize of Ernst von Simes