Salvatore Sciarrino

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Salvatore Sciarrino (born Palermo, Italy, on April 4, 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Salvatore Sciarrino likes to boast that he was born free and not in a school of music. Self-taught, he began to compose when he was twelve. His first public concert was given in 1962. But Sciarrino considers what he wrote before 1966 as immature works of apprenticeship, for it is then that his personal style came to the fore. There is something truly special about this music: it induces a different way of listening, projecting a thrilling awareness of reality and of the self. And after forty years his huge catalogue of compositions is still in a phase of astonishing creative development. After completing his schooling and a few years of university in his home town, he moved first to Rome in 1969 and then to Milan in 1977. Since 1983 he was been living in Umbria. He published for Ricordi from 1969 to 2004. From the very next year exclusive rights passed to Rai Trade. His discography is particularly large: around 80 CDs, issued by the major international labels, have been acclaimed and often awarded prizes. As well as the librettos of his own works of music theatre, Sciarrino has written many articles, essays and texts of various kinds; some have been chosen and collected in Carte da suono (Cidim – Novecento, 2001). Also important is his interdisciplinary book on musical form: Le figure della musica, da Beethoven a oggi (Ricordi, 1998). He has taught at the co

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Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino - Quaderno di strada

Salvatore Sciarrino - Infinito Nero

Orchestral Works

Sciarrino: Piano Works

Sciarrino: Luci Mie Traditrici

Salvatore Sciarrino: Lo spazio inverso

Sciarrino: Complete Works for Violin & Viola

Salvatore Sciarrino: Orchestral works

Altri Volti e Nuovi 1

Salvatore Sciarrino: Paesaggi con Macerie

Lo Spazio Inverso

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