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Died. Gian Francesco Malipiero, 91, Italian composer of 40 operas (Julius Caesar, Metamorphoses of Bonaventura) and eight major symphonies; of a heart attack; in Treviso, Italy. A descendant of Venetian doges, Malipiero was influenced by early Italian composers like Monteverdi but was also an innovator, writing atonal music at a time when Puccini was turning out his sweetly melodic opera scores...
GIAN FRANCESCO MALIPIERO: RISPETTI E STRAMBOTTI FOR STRING QUARTET (Nonesuch). The highly melodious, archaic music of the 82-year-old Italian composer too seldom gets a hearing. Abandoning formal movements, he has strung together 20 "stanzas" in celebration of old Italian poetry. He also celebrates the sound of strings, even reveling in what seem like tuning-up exercises. There is a contagious spontaneity in this reissue by the Stuyvesant Quartet, who on the other side play Hindemith's youthful and exuberant String Quartet...
...Extremes. The Bergamo festival has launched such well-known Italian composers as Gian Francesco Malipiero and Giorgio Ghedini on their operatic careers (a notable exception: Gian Carlo Menotti, who, says a friend, "found his Bergamo in America"). The two new works at this year's festival displayed the extremes of two warring contemporary Italian styles. The Admiral, by Arturo Andreoli, 58, a longtime coach at La Scala, was a typical example of verismo (an operatic movement comparable to literary "realism"), made popular in the late igth century by Mascagni, Leonca--vallo, Puccini. Based on a one-act play...
...swooping swallow, the audience settled back near the twisting vines of the Pinot Noir grape for an afternoon of music and champagne. If the wine was only domestic, the music was great or rare: Beethoven, 18th century German Composer Johann Schobert, 76-year-old Italian Composer G. Francesco Malipiero...
...vocal element ... is the sun; the other sounds are the planets"), the work moved with melodic simplicity, derived its main effects from the repetitive. Oriental-sounding accompaniment which has helped to distinguish Hovhaness' output from more technique-tortured works of his contemporaries. ¶J Italian Composer Riccardo Malipiero's 45-minute Sinfonia Cantata was premiered on the same program. A musical evocation of America, the work draws its text from poems in four different languages, all in different ways evoking the New World. Italy's Dino Campana sees classical images that compare the noble Indian savage...