Luciano Berio (1925–2003)
Author of Remembering the Future
About the Author
A musician and composer, Luciano Berio was born in Oneglia, near Genoa, Italy. Music was an intrinsic part of his childhood. His father was his first teacher, instructing him on the organ and piano. At the age of 15, Berio went to the Milan Conservatory, where he studied composition and conducting. show more After graduation, he worked for a short period as a voice coach and conductor in several Italian opera houses and composed several pieces, including Due Pezzi, for violin and piano (1951); Variazioni, for piano (1952); and Chamber Music, for voice, clarinet, cello, and harp, based on poems by James Joyce. While at the Berkshire Music Center at the Tanglewood Music Center in Lenox, Massachusetts, Berio studied composition with Luigi Dallapiccola. Dallapiccola introduced Berio to the artistic potentials of 12-tone music and serialism. Variations for Chamber Orchestra (1953); Nones, for orchestra (1954); and Allelujah 1, for orchestra (1956) are characterized as controlled serialism. In 1954 Berio returned to Milan, where he founded the Studio di Fonologia Musicale in order to experiment with electronic music. He incorporated electronic sounds into such compositions as Mutazioni (1955); Omaggio a Joyce (1958), based on Chapter 11 of Joyce's Ulysses; and Momento (1958). Berio no longer confined music to pitched sound; he embraced the world of sound and experimented with and used sounds of all kinds in his compositions. Visage (1960) was the last piece of music that Berio wrote during this period of experimentation with electronics at his Milan studio. In 1960 Berio returned to the United States. He taught music at Mills College at Oakland, California, and Harvard University before settling at the Julliard School of Music in New York. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Works by Luciano Berio
Coro 6 copies
Circles (1960) : for female voice, harp, 2 percussion players : from e.e. cummings poems 1923-1954 (1961) 3 copies
Orfeo Ed Euridice 2 copies
Voci [sound recording (CD)] 2 copies
Un re in ascolto [programme book] 2 copies
Cinque variazioni per pianoforte 2 copies
Sequenza 2 copies
Gesti : for alto recorder 2 copies
Un Re in Ascolto 2 copies
Laborintus 2 2 copies
Rendering 2 copies
Outis [programme book] 1 copy
Feuerklavier 1 copy
Sinfonia; Eindrucke 1 copy
Visage 1 copy
Thema--Omaggio a Joyce 1 copy
Sequenza II (1963) 1 copy
Folk Songs: Lo fiolaire 1 copy
Contemporary Trumpet Music 1 copy
Mahler - Berio - Strauss: Orchesterlieder [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Partita / Continuo / Visions by Carter, Berio, Takemitsu, Barenboim (1995-06-06) — Composer — 1 copy
Serata Glen Tetley 1 copy
Luciano Berio - Gebundeld 1 copy
Formazioni / Folk Songs / Sinfonia [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
Berio: Folk Songs 1 copy
Folk Songs: Ballo 1 copy
Peter Serkin ...in Real Time 1 copy
Berio: Voci 1 copy
Epifanie and Folk Songs 1 copy
Sequenzas 1 copy
Epifanie 1 copy
Eindrucke 1 copy
Sequenza for solo flute 1 copy
Folk Songs: La donna ideale 1 copy
Folk Songs: A la femminisca 1 copy
Folk Songs: Loosin yelav 1 copy
Quartetto Per Archi 1 copy
Chemins II su Sequenza VI 1 copy
Passagio 1 copy
Associated Works
La ||viola contemporanea [sound recording] — Composer — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1925-10-24
- Date of death
- 2003-05-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Italy
- Birthplace
- Oneglia, Italy
- Place of death
- Rome, Italy
- Education
- Milan Conservatory
- Occupations
- composer
- Relationships
- McLeod, Jenny (student)
- Organizations
- Juilliard School
- Awards and honors
- Wolf Prize (Arts ∙ 1991)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Foreign Honorary - Music ∙ 1985)
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Statistics
- Works
- 106
- Also by
- 3
- Members
- 197
- Popularity
- #111,410
- Rating
- 4.2
- Reviews
- 22
- ISBNs
- 27
- Languages
- 6