Luca Lombardi

Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945 in Rome) is an Italian composer.

Biography

Lombardi studied composition initially with Armando Renzi and Roberto Lupi, later enrolling at the Pesaro Conservatory where he studied with Boris Porena, receiving his diploma in 1970. He then studied musicology at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on Hanns Eisler. From 1968 to 1972 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, and Frederic Rzewski at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik. He also studied for a time in Berlin with Paul Dessau in 1973 at the Akademie der Künste.

Works

Operas and other stage works

*"Faust: "Un travestimento" (libretto by the composer, after E. Sanguineti) (1986–90)
*"Prospero" (after William Shakespeare's play The Tempest)

Orchestra

*Symphony no. 1 (1974–75)
*"Variazioni" (1977)
*Symphony no. 2 (1981)
*"Framework", for 2 pianos and orchestra (1982–83)
*Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1995)

Chamber music

*"Proporzioni", for 4 trombones (1968–69)
*"Non requiescat, musica in memoria di Hanns Eisler", for chamber orchestra (1973)
*"Gespräch über Bäume", for eight instrumentalists (1976)
*"Klavierduo", (1978–89)
*"Einklang", for oboe, cor anglais, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, viola, cello, and double-bass (1980)
*"Sisyphos", for flute, clarinet, mandoline, guitar, marimba, harp, viola, and double-bass (1984)
*"Sisyphos II", for 14 instruments (1984)
*"Sisifo felice", for eight instrumentalists (1985)
*"Ai piedi del faro", for double-bass and eight instrumentalists (1986)
*String Quartet no.1 ("Quartett vom armen Mann", 1991–92)
*"Bagatelles sans et avec tonalité", for piano four-hands (1992)
*"Jahreswechsel", for chamber ensemble (1993–94)
*"Addii", for violin, cello, and piano (1995–96)
*"Infra", for 11 instrumentalists (1997)

olo instrument

*"Albumblätter", for piano (1967–68)
*"Wiederkehr", for piano (1971)
*"Variazioni su "Avanti popolo alla riscossa", for piano (1977)
*"Essay 2", for bass clarinet (1979)
*"Schattenspiel", for bass flute (1984)
*"A chi fa notte il giorno", for double-bass (1993)

ources

*Ramazzotti, Marinella. 2001. "Lombardi, Luca". "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.