Goffredo Petrassi News
Italian composer
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2024-04-25
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2024-03-23 15:27:00
R.I.P. Maurizio Pollini (1942-2024)
[…] and the bombs, we took it all the more seriously. I think it was the reaction of the whole country that kept it from happening. Back then, I once read, or rather tried to read, a declaration against a hideous atrocity in the Vietnam War when the United States bombed Hanoi and Hai Phong. Several Italian musicians had signed the declaration: Claudio Abbado, Luigi Nono, [Giacomo] Manzoni and the Quartetto Italiano, as well as Goffredo Petrassi, Luigi Dallapiccola. Contrary to all my expectations, at the mere sound of the word ‘Vietnam’, the audience exploded in a kind of collective delirium, which made it impossible to continue my recital. I made several attempts to read this short statement. This was interrupted by the arrival of the police. Eventually the piano was closed and that was that. He spoke at the protests against Berlusconi almost half a century later too. Maurizio Pollini […]
2020-12-04 12:00:00
Works by Francesco Pennisi, Goffredo Petrassi and Marcello Panni, reviewed by Giuseppe Pennisi
2019-10-29 20:46:06
Hungarian composer Zoltan Jeney has passed away – aged 76. A graduate of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, where he studied with Ferenc Farkas and Goffredo Petrassi, Professor Jeney served a long term teaching position on the compositional faculty at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, in […] The post appeared first on The World's Leading Classical Music News Source. Est 2009..
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