biography
pronunciation:
[berioh]
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Composer and teacher of music, born in Oneglia, NW Italy. He studied at the Music Academy in Milan, and founded an electronic studio. He moved to the USA in 1962, taught composition at the Juilliard School, New York City, and returned to Italy in 1972. In 1950 he married the US soprano Cathy Berberian (1925–83), for whom he wrote several works; the marriage was dissolved in 1966. He is particularly interested in the combining of live and pre-recorded sound, and the use of tapes and electronic music, as in his compositions Mutazioni (1955, Mutations) and Omaggio a James Joyce (1958, Homage to James Joyce). His Sequenza series for solo instruments (1958 onwards) are striking virtuoso pieces. Other works include Passaggio (1963), Laborintus II (1965), Opera (1969–70), and Continuo (1991). |
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