21st century
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Sciarrino Salvatore
Adler, Samuel
Albert, Adrienne
Amlin, Martin
Arnauts, Dimitri
Bacri, Nicolas
Baksa, Robert
Balter, Marcos
Beal, Jeff
Bilotta, John
Borisova-Ollas, Victoria
Bullard, Janice Maille
Bunch, Kenji
Carter, Elliott
Chamberlain, Nicole
Chyrzynski, Marcel
Clarke, Ian
Coleman, Valerie
Connesson, Guillaume
Costa Roldán, Eduardo
Cueto, Daniel
Dalbavie, Marc-André
Daugherty, Michael
Dehnhard, Tilmann
Desenne, Paul
Dorff, Daniel
Egger, Fabian Johannes
Eggert, Kenneth
Firšt, Nenad
Furrer, Beat
Garrop, Stacy
Ghidoni, Armando
Gibb, Charles
Hailstork, Adolphus
Harberg, Amanda
Hersh, Howard
Hoover, Katherine
Igudesman, Aleksey
Ittzés, Gergely
Kernis, Aaron Jay
Khoury, Houstaf
Kukal, Ondřej
León, Tania
Lias, Stephen
Liebermann, Lowell
Lindberg, Christian
Linthicum-Blackhorse, William
Louke, Phyllis Avidan
Magalif, Eugene
Mitchell, Jonathan
Monroe, Ervin
Mower, Mike
Mucha, Geraldine
Mulleman, Tim
Ornstein, Maarten
Pann, Carter
Panufnik, Roxanna
Pärt, Arvo
Pattillo, Greg
Penman, Katrina
Petrič, Ivo
Price, William
Pritsker, Gene
Pucihar, Blaž
Ran, Shulamit
Rea, Stephanie
Rotaru, Doina
Rozman, Anže
Schocker, Gary
Schwantner, Joseph
Sciarrino, Salvatore
Seif, Sami
Serebrier, José
Skipworth, Lachlan
Sollberger, Harvey
Somma, Victor
Uébayashi, Yuko
Vasks, Pēteris
Widmann, Jörg
Witt, Carl
Woolf, Randall
Yi, Chen
"Autostrada prima di Babilonia" for flute solo
"All'aure in una lontananza" for flute solo
"Autostrada prima di Babilonia" for flute solo
"Canzona di ringraziamento" for flute solo
"Come vengono prodotti gli incantesimi" for flute solo
"Cresce veloce un cristallo" for flute solo
"Fogli per giovani fauni" for flute solo
"Fra I testi dedicati alle nubi" for flute solo
"Il pomeriggio di un allarme al parcheggio" for flute solo
"Immagine fenicia" for flute solo
"L'orizzonte luminoso di Aton" for flute solo
"L'orologio di Bergson" for flute solo
"Lettera degli antipodi portata dal vento" for flute solo
"Morte Tamburo" for flute solo
"Un capitolo mancante" for flute solo
"Un Tibetano a Parigi" for flute solo
"Autostrada prima di Babilonia" for flute solo
Salvatore Sciarrino: "Autostrada prima di Babilonia" for flute solo was written in 2014. The work is part of Sciarrino's ongoing collaboration with modern virtuosos. It has been championed by flutists such as Eduard Belmar, who performed it at the 2015 ARD International Music Competition.
The title "Autostrada prima di Babilonia" (Highway before Babylon) evokes a sense of travel and ancient history, common in Sciarrino's atmospheric naming conventions. The piece utilizes Sciarrino's signature "sonic ecology," focusing on minute, breath-like sounds and subtle key clicks that emerge from silence.
The piece is divided into two movements, and it features extreme dynamic control (crescendo from and diminuendo to silence, or niente notation) and "whistling" effects into the flute.
By 2014, Sciarrino was globally recognized as one of the most significant living European composers. His works from this year reflect a mature style where "musical figures" undergo subtle accumulation and multiplication, a theory he formalized in his earlier landmark book Le figure della musica.
Sciarrino Salvatore
Salvatore Sciarrino (1947) is an Italian composer, regarded as one of the most performed Italian composers of contemporary classical music. Born in Sicily, he moved to Rome to study electronic music at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Later he moved to Milan where he taught at the Milan Conservatory. His compositional style was greatly influenced by modernist composer Luigi Nono. Sciarrino's music is avant-garde but complemented with a frequent use of silence. "...there's one thing without which no delight in sound makes sense, and that is the intensity of silence."
His music can be regarded as complex articulatory blocks which Sciarrino calls "figures", constantly balancing between "being" and "not-being" in terms of traditional sounds. The concept of the mystical Void has been present throughout many of his works. Among his most noteworthy compositions: opera Amore e Psiche (1972), Un’immagine di Arpocrate (1979) for piano, choir and orchestra. During 1980s and 1990s he created numerous compositions for solo instruments and small ensembles. One of his most outstanding work: II cerchio tagliato dei suoni (1997) for four solo flutes and 100 migrant flutes.