Gian Francesco Malipiero (; 18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer,

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, music teacher and

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Life

Early years

Born in

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into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer

Francesco Malipiero Francesco Malipiero (9 January 1824 - 12 May 1887) was an Italian composer. He was the father of conductor and pianist Luigi Malipiero and the grandfather of composer and musicologist Gian Francesco Malipiero. Trained in Venice, he composed a large ...

, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. His father separated from his mother in 1893 and took Gian Francesco to

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and eventually to

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. The young Malipiero and his father broke up their relationship bitterly, and in 1899 Malipiero returned to his mother's home in Venice, where he entered the Venice ''Liceo Musicale'' (now the

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).John C.G. Watherhouse (1993). "Gian Francesco Malipiero (1883–1973)". In Symphonies nos.3 and 4 · Sinfonia del mare (pp. 3–5)

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Germany: Naxos. After stopping

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lessons with the composer, organist and pedagogue

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, Malipiero continued studying on his own by copying out music by such composers as

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and

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from the ''

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'', in Venice, thereby beginning a lifelong commitment to Italian music of that period. In 1904 he went to

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and sought out Bossi to continue his studies, at the Bologna ''Liceo Musicale'' (now the

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). In 1906 he returned to the Venice Conservatory Benedetto Marcello of Music to continue his studies. After graduating, Malipiero became an assistant to the blind composer

Antonio Smareglia Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Italians, Italian opera composer. Life Antonio Smareglia was born in Pula, Pola (in the Istrian peninsula, under the Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungarian Empire, now in Croatia). In the house ...

Musical career

In 1905 Malipiero returned to Venice, but from 1906 to 1909 was often in Berlin,Laureto Rodoni, ''«Caro Lualdi…». I rapporti d'arte e d'amicizia tra G.F.Malipiero e A.Lualdi alla luce di alcune lettere inedite''

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's classes. Later, in 1913, Malipiero moved to Paris, where he became acquainted with compositions by

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, Falla,

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, and

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. Most importantly, he attended the première of

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's ''

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'', soon after meeting

Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a fr ...

and Gabriele d'Annunzio. He described the experience as an awakening "from a long and dangerous lethargy". After that, he repudiated almost all the compositions he had written up to that time, with the exception of ''Impressioni dal vero'' (1910–11). At that time he won four composition prizes at the

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in Rome, by entering five compositions under five different pseudonyms. In 1917, due to the Italian defeat at

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, he was forced to flee from Venice and settled in Rome. In 1923, he joined with Alfredo Casella and Gabriele D'Annunzio in creating the

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. Malipiero was on good terms with

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until he set Pirandello's libretto ''La favola del figlio cambiato'', earning the condemnation of the fascists. Malipiero dedicated his next opera, ''Giulio Cesare'', to Mussolini, but this did not help him. He was a professor of composition at the

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from 1921 to 1924. In 1932 he became professor of composition at the then Venice Liceo Musicale, which he directed from 1939 to 1952. Among others, he taught

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and his own nephew

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. After permanently settling in the little town of

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in 1923,John C.G. Watherhouse (1993). "Gian Francesco Malipiero (1883–1973)". In Symphonies nos.1 and 2 · Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte (pp. 3–5)

Germany: Naxos. Malipiero began the editorial work for which he would become best known, a complete edition of all of

's oeuvre, from 1926 to 1942, and after 1952, editing much of

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's concerti at the ''Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi''.

Compositions

Malipiero had an ambivalent attitude towards the musical tradition dominated by Austro-German composers, and instead insisted on the rediscovery of pre-19th-century Italian music. His orchestral works include seventeen compositions he called symphonies, of which however only eleven are numbered. The first was composed in 1933, when Malipiero was already over fifty years old. Prior to that, Malipiero had written several important orchestral pieces but avoided the word ''"sinfonia"'' (symphony) almost completely. This was due to his rejection of the Austro-German symphonic tradition. The only exceptions to that are the three compositions ''Sinfonia degli eroi'' (1905), ''Sinfonia del mare'' (1906) and ''Sinfonie del silenzio e della morte'' (1909–1910). In such early works, the label "symphony" should not, however, be interpreted as indicating works in the Beethovenian or Brahmsian symphonic style, but more as symphonic poems. When asked in the mid-1950s by the British encyclopedia ''The World of Music'', Malipiero listed as his most important compositions the following pieces: * ''Pause del Silenzio'' for the orchestra, composed in 1917 * ''Rispetti e Strambotti'' for string quartet, composed in 1920 * ''L'Orfeide'' for the stage, composed between 1918 and 1922, and first performed in 1924 * ''La Passione'', a mystery play composed in 1935 * his nine symphonies, composed between 1933 and 1955 (he would compose additional symphonies in the years after this list was made) He regarded ''Impressioni dal vero'', for orchestra, as his earliest work of lasting importance.

Musical theory and style

Malipiero was strongly critical of

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form and, in general, of standard thematic development in composition. He declared: Malipiero's musical language is characterized by an extreme formal freedom; he always renounced the academic discipline of variation, preferring the more anarchic expression of song, and he avoided falling into

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descriptivism. Until the first half of the 1950s, Malipiero remained tied to diatonism, maintaining a connection with the pre-19th-century Italian instrumental music and Gregorian chant, moving then slowly to increasingly eerie and tense territories that put him closer to total chromaticism. He did not abandon his previous style but he reinvented it. In his latest pages, it is possible to recognize suggestions from his pupils

and

Bruno Maderna Bruno Maderna (21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian conductor and composer. Life Maderna was born Bruno Grossato in Venice but later decided to take the name of his mother, Caterina Carolina Maderna.Interview with Maderna‘s th ...

. His compositions are based on free, non-thematic passages as much as in thematic composition, and seldom do movements end in the keys in which they started. When Malipiero approached the symphony, he did not do so in the so-called post-Beethovenian sense, and for this reason authors rather described his works as "sinfonias" (the Italian term), to emphasize Malipiero's fundamentally Italian, anti-Germanic approach. He remarked: As

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once declared, "these symphonies are not thematic but 'motivic': that is to say Malipiero uses melodic motifs like everyone else ..they generate other motifs, they reappear, but they do not ''carry'' the musical discourse – they are, rather, carried ''by it''".

Reception

The French conductor Antonio de Almeida led the

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in recordings of the complete Malipiero symphonies for Naxos (Marco Polo, 1993–1994). Recently, Malipiero's piano repertoire, including his complete concertos, has experienced a revival at the hands of noted Italian pianist Sandro Ivo Bartoli. Malipiero was the subject of the 1985 biographical film '' Poems of Asolo'' by

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Selected works

Operas

*'' L'Orfeide'' (1919–1922,

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1925), in tre parti: :*I "La morte delle maschere", :*II "Sette canzoni", :*III "Orfeo" *''Tre commedie goldoniane'' (1920–1922,

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1926) : :*I "La bottega da caffè", :*II "Sior Todero Brontolon", :*III "Le baruffe Chiozotte" *''Filomela e l'infatuato'' (1925,

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1928) *'' Torneo notturno'' (1929) *''La favola del figlio cambiato'' (

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, 1933) *''Giulio Cesare'' (da

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(1935,

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1936) *''Antonio e Cleopatra'' (da Shakespeare, 1937,

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1938) *''I capricci di Callot'' (da E.T.A. Hoffmann, 1942, Rome 1942) *''L'allegra brigata'' (1943, Milan 1950) *''Mondi celesti ed infernali'' (1949, Venice 1961) *''Il figliuol prodigo'' (1952, Florence 1957) *''Donna Urraca'', atto unico (1954) *''Venere prigioniera'' (1955, Florence 1957) *''Il marescalco'' (1960,

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1969) *''Don Giovanni'' (1963,

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) *''Rappresentazione e festa di Carnasciale e della Quaresima'' (Opera

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, 1961, Venice 1970) *''Le metamorfosi di Bonaventura'' (Venice 1966) *''Don Tartufo bacchettone'' (1966, Venice 1970) *''Iscariota'' (1971)

Orchestral music

* ''Dai sepolcri'' (1904) * ''Sinfonia degli eroi'' (1905) * ''Sinfonia del mare'' (1906) * ''Sinfonia del silenzio e de la morte'' (1909–1910) * ''Impressioni dal vero'' prima parte (1910) * ''Impressioni dal vero'' seconda parte (1915) * ''Ditirambo tragico'' (1917) * ''Pause del Silenzio'' (1917) * ''Grottesco'' (1918) *Ballet ''Pantea'' (1919) * ''Cimarosiana'' (1921), five symphonic fragments from keyboard works of Cimarosa * ''Impressioni dal vero'' terza parte (1922) * ''Concerti'' (1931) * ''Concerto n.1 for Piano and

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'' (1931) * ''Inni'' (1932) * ''Concerto n.1 for Violin and Orchestra'' (1932) * ''Sette Invenzioni'' (1933) * ''Sinfonia n.1 "In quattro tempi, come le quattro stagioni"'' (1933) * ''Sinfonia n.2 "Elegiaca"'' (1936) * ''Concerto for Cello and Orchestra'' (1937) * ''Concerto n.2 for Piano and Orchestra'' (1937) * ''Concerto a tre'' for Violin, Cello, Piano and Orchestra (1938) * '' Sinfonia n.3 "Delle campane"'' (1944–1945) * ''Sinfonia n.4 "In memoriam"'' (1946) * ''Sinfonia n.5 "Concertante in eco"'' (1947) * ''Sinfonia n.6 "Degli archi"'' (1947) *Ballet ''Stradivario'' (1948) * ''Sinfonia n.7 "Delle canzoni"'' (1948) * ''Concerto n.3 per pianoforte e orchestra'' (1948) * ''Concerto n.4 per pianoforte e orchestra'' (1950) * ''Sinfonia in un tempo'' (1950) * '' Sinfonia dello Zodiaco'' "Quattro partite: dalla primavera all'inverno" (1951) *Ballet ''El mondo novo'' (1951) * ''Vivaldiana'' (1952) * ''Passacaglie'' (1952) * ''Fantasie di ogni giorno'' (1953) * ''Elegia capriccio'' (1953) * ''Fantasie concertanti'' (1954) * ''Notturno di canti e balli'' (1957) * ''Concerto n.5 for Piano and Orchestra'' (1958) * ''Sinfonia per Antigenida'' (1962) * ''Concerto n.2 for Violin and Orchestra'' (1963) * ''Sinfonia n.8 "Symphonia brevis"'' (1964) * ''Concerto n.6 for Piano and Orchestra'' (1964) * ''Sinfonia n.9 "Dell'Ahimè"'' (1966) * ''Sinfonia n.10 "Atropo"'' (1966–1967) * ''Concerto per flauto e orchestra'' (1968) * ''Sinfonia n.11 "Delle cornamuse"'' (1969) * ''Gabrieliana'' (1971) * ''Omaggio a Belmonte'' (1971)

Chamber music

* ''Sonata'' for Cello and Piano (1907–1908) * ''Canto della Lontananza'' for Violin and Piano (1919) * '' String Quartet n.1 "Rispetti e strambotti"'' (1920) * ''String Quartet n.2 "Stornelli e ballate"'' (1923) * ''String Quartet n.3 "Cantari alla madrigalesca"'' (1931) * ''Epodi e giambi'' for Violin,

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e fagotto (1932) * ''String Quartet n.4'' (1934) * ''Sonata a cinque'' per flauto, arpa, viola, violino e violoncello (1934) * ''String Quartet n.5 "dei capricci"'' (1941–1950) * ''Sonatina'' for Cello and Piano (1942) * ''String Quartet n.6 "l'Arca di Noé"'' (1947) * ''String Quartet n.7'' (1950) * ''Sonata a quattro'' for flute, oboe,

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and bassoon (1954) * ''Serenata mattutina'' per 10 strumenti (1959) * ''Serenata'' per fagotto e 10 strumenti (1961) * ''Macchine'' per 14 strumenti (1963) * ''String Quartet n.8 "per Elisabetta"'' (1964) * ''Endecatode'' per 14 strumenti e percussione (1966)

Piano music

* 6 ''morceaux (6 pezzi)'' (1905) * ''Bizzarrie luminose dell'alba, del meriggio, della notte'' (1908) * 3 ''danze antiche'' (1910) * ''Poemetti lunari'' (1909–10) * ''Tre improvvisi per Pianola'' * ''Impressioni'' (vor 1914) * ''Preludi autunnali'' (1914) * ''Poemi asolani'' (1916) * ''Barlumi'' (1917) * ''Maschere che passano'' (1918) * ''Risonanze'' (1918) * ''La siesta'' (1920) * ''A Claude Debussy'' (1920) * ''Omaggi: a un pappagallo, a un elefante, a un idiota'' (1920) * ''Cavalcate'' (1921) * ''Il tarlo'' (1922) * ''Pasqua di resurrezione'' (1924) * ''3 preludi e una fuga'' (1926) * ''Epitaffio'' (1931) * ''Prélude à une fugue imaginaire'' (1932) * ''I minuetti di Ca'Tiepolo'' (1932) * ''Preludio, ritmi e canti gregoriani'' (1937) * ''Preludio e fuga'' (1940) * ''Hortus conclusus'' (1946) * ''Stradivario'' für 2 Klaviere (1955) * Dialogo no.2 für 2 Klaviere (1955) * 5 ''studi per domani'' (1959) * ''Variazione sulla pantomima dell'"Amor brujo" di Manuel de Falla'' (1959) * ''Bianchi e neri'' (1964)

Vocal works

*''Tre poesie di

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(1920) *''San Francesco d'Assisi'', mistero per soli, coro e orchestra (1920–1921, New York 1922) *''Quattro sonetti del Burchiello'' (1921) *''Due sonetti del Berni'' (1922) *''Le Stagioni Italiche'' per

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e pianoforte (1923, Venise 1925) *''La Cena'',

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per coro e orchestra (1927,

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1929) *''Commiato'' per una voce di baritono e orchestra (1934) *''La Passione'', cantata per coro e orchestra (Rome 1935) *''De Profundis'' per una voce, viola e

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e pianoforte (Venise 1937) *''Missa Pro Mortuis'' per baritono, coro e orchestra (Rome 1938) *''Quattro Vecchie Canzoni'' per voce e strumenti (1940,

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1941) *''Santa Eufrosina'', mistero per soprano, due baritoni, coro e orchestra (Rome 1942) *''Le Sette Allegrezze d'Amore'' per voce e strumenti (Milan 1945) *''La Terra'', dalle Georgiche di

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io (1946) *''Mondi celesti'' for soprano and ten instruments (1948,

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1949) *''La Festa della Sensa'' per baritone, chorus and orchestra (1949–1950,

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1954) *''Cinque favole'' (1950) *''Preludio e morte di Macbeth'' for baritone and orchestra (1958, Milan 1960) *''Sette canzonette veneziane'' for voice and piano (1960)

Film scores

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References

Bibliography

*Sorce Keller, Marcello. “A Bent for Aphorisms: Some Remarks about Music and about His Own Music by Gian Francesco Malipiero”, ''The Music Review'', XXXIX(1978), no. 3–4, 231–239. *

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Malipiero, Gian Francesco 1882 births 1973 deaths 20th-century classical composers Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Italian opera composers Male opera composers Italian ballet composers Musicians from Venice 20th-century Italian composers Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini alumni 20th-century Italian male musicians