- Giuseppe Sinopoli
Giuseppe Sinopoli (
November 2 ,1946 –April 20 ,2001 ) was a conductor andcomposer .Biography
Sinopoli was born in
Venice ,Italy , and later studied at theBenedetto Marcello Conservatoire in Venice underErnesto Rubin de Cervin and atDarmstadt , including being mentored in composition withKarlheinz Stockhausen . He also obtained a degree inmedicine from theUniversity of Padua , and completed a dissertation oncriminal anthropology . [cite news | author=David Nice | title=Obituary: Giuseppe Sinopoli | url=http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/arts/story/0,,477113,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=23 April 2001 | accessdate=2007-07-15]Career
Sinopoli began to make a name for himself as a composer of serial works, becoming professor of contemporary and electronic music at the Venice Conservatoire Benedetto Marcello in 1972, and a major proponent of the new movement in Venice for contemporary music. He studied conducting at the Vienna Academy of Music under
Hans Swarowsky ; and in Venice, founded theBruno Maderna Ensemble in the 1970s. His single most famous composition is perhaps his opera "Lou Salomé", which received its first production in Munich in 1981. [cite news | author= | title=Stick to your guns | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,734715,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=24 August 2001 | accessdate=2007-07-15]Sinopoli was appointed principal conductor of the
Philharmonia in 1984, and served in this position until 1994, making a number of recordings with them, including music ofEdward Elgar and the complete symphonies ofGustav Mahler . [cite news | author=Andrew Clements | title=Handle with care | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,735057,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=21 December 2001 | accessdate=2007-07-15] He became principal conductor of theStaatskapelle Dresden in 1992. He also joined theBayreuth Festival 's roster of conductors. He is best known for his intense and sometimes controversial interpretations ofopera , especially works by Italian composers andRichard Strauss . Sinopoli specialized in late-nineteenth century and early-twentieth century music, from Wagner and Verdi to Richard Strauss, Mahler and theSecond Viennese School . His conducting was the object of much controversy, especially in the symphonic genre, with some berating the "eccentricity" of his interpretations and even doubting his conducting abilities while others praised the insightfulness of his often intellectual approach to works.In April 2001, Sinopoli died of a
heart attack while conductingGiuseppe Verdi 'sAïda at theDeutsche Oper inBerlin . His last recordings includedRichard Strauss ' "Ariadne auf Naxos" and "Friedenstag", as well as Dvorak's "Stabat Mater". [cite news | author=Tim Ashley | title=Radical visions | url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,734984,00.html | work=The Guardian | date=30 November 2001 | accessdate=2007-07-15] He was survived by his wife Silvia and two sons.Every October since 2005
Taormina Arte has dedicated a festival to Giuseppe Sinopoli, the artistic director of the Music section of the Taormina Festival from 1989 to 1997. The Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival does not only celebrate the man as a musician and as a conductor but also as a composer, a doctor, an archaeologist and intellectual, with a variety of events from music and literature, theatre and art to conferences, exhibitions, publications and, of course, concerts. Every year the Festival welcomes the most important orchestras in the country.On the occasion of the first edition of the Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra was formed, in collaboration with the Conservatorio “Arcangelo Corelli” of Messina. The Orchestra, made up of young talented musicians, both pupils and teachers of the Conservatorio, mostly performs works by Giuseppe Sinopoli.References
External links
*allmusic|41:5796~t1
* [http://www.sinopolifestival.it/home.asp?Lang=2 Giuseppe Sinopoli Festival official website]Interviews
* [http://www.bruceduffie.com/sinopoli2.html Giuseppe Sinopoli interview] by Bruce Duffie
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