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Artist
Aldo Clementi
12+ albums
contemporary classicalcomposerAvant-Gardeitalianelectro-acoustic
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Aldo Clementi (25 May, 1925 - 3 March, 2011) was the last survivor of the great generation of Italian postwar musical avant-gardists. He was also its quietest and most self-effacing member, both personally and musically. After a hesitant start, he developed a technique that allowed him to produce works as calmly consistent in sound and technique as a Renaissance motet, and some would say just as beautiful. His style of decelerating canons has been described as "sharing in the widespread post-serial depression of the 1970s", while Paul Griffiths referred to the "Alexandrian simplicity of his solution to the current confusion in music". Clementi himself described his works as "an extremely dense counterpoint, relegating the parts to the shameful role of inaudible, cadaverous micro-organisms". Clementi was born in Catania, Sicily, far from the centres of musical modernism. His talent was encouraged by his father, a keen amateur violinist. Aldo was a promising pianist, and in the salons of Catania he played the music that would one day be at the centre of his own, but mysteriously transformed: Bach, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn. He also began to compose, receiving guidance from Alfredo Sangiorgi, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg. Clementi's studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962. Important influences during this per
top songs
albums
Aldo Clementi: Madrigale
Works With Flutes
For Saxophones
Madrigale
Punctum Contra Punctum
Repeat!
Works With Guitar
Punctum Contra Punctum (gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi, Die Schachtel)
Elisabeth Chojnacka - Clavecin 2.000 (Prospective 21e siècle)
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History of Electronic Music
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Short Sounds
Madrigale (feat. Ives Ensemble)