Davide Remigio (born 1963) is a composer of

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origin. He is founder of "Quaternary musical composition".

Biography

Remigio was born in Melbourne on June 26, 1963, to Italian parents. His sister is

Carmela Remigio Carmela Remigio (born 1973) is an Italian operatic soprano. Biography Carmela Remigio was born in Pescara and began to study violin when she was five years old. She later began vocal training with Aldo Protti at the Accademia Musicale Pescare ...

, an Italian opera soprano. He returned to Italy in 1969 and studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio Luisa D'Annunzio in

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. Remigio began learning music theory at the age of nine. He composed his first composition "Giga", for solo

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, at the age of 11. At the age of 14, he enrolled regularly at the conservatory, where he studied harmony, counterpoint and attended a course for

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(1979). In the following years, he made various compositions in

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style for musical theater. He completed his studies in violin,

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, conducting, ensemble instrumentation and

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in the city of

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. He graduated in composition (

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) in 1992 at the in Rome under

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

, and in 1991 Music for Film with

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. He has taught Music Composition at the Italian conservatories of Potenza, Bari, L'Aquila and Milan. In 1989, Davide was awarded th
Silone
Price Music for the composition "Homage to Silone" for narrator and orchestra, and in 1993 the

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rewarded "Mordenti" for ensemble. His music is published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno,

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, Australian Autumn Music and Edipan. His work, "Saxes for saxophone octet" is in collection in national e-deposit at

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. In 1997 he founded the Quaternary Music, a composition technique with only four notes.

Quaternary Music

Quaternary musical composition is a compositional technique based on a quadriad of notes that the composer chooses before composing the musical work. The chosen quadriad of notes behaves like a true griffe-sonora, which defines the musical colour of the composition in all its particularities. The sound created by the quadriad of notes is so defined that it does not need so many changes of harmonic sounds to have a good of sound variety. This compositional technique helps the composer to create new compositions that are interesting from a harmonic perspective.

Work

* 1974 - Giga, for piano * 1975 - Duettino, for two violins * 1976 - Foglio d'album, for piano * 1977 - Capriccio, for violin * 1979 - Convesso, for timpani * 1980 - Orizzonti Sonori for narrator, soprano, 2 pianos and 2 percussionists * 1980 - Studio, for piano * 1980 - Absolute schreibschrift, for piano * 1982 - Foglio d'album II, for violin and piano * 1982 - Lamento, for voice and piano * 1985 - Tesi, for violin, cello, and piano * 1988 - Il naso di Lulu, for sopran and piano * 1989 - Hyades, for guitar * 1989 - Soft, for violin, viola, cello, contrabass * 1989 - Tejat, for piano * 1991 - Antares for solo clarinet *1992 - LEM, for two violins *1992 - Tuc, for

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*1993 - Studi moderni, for accordion *1994 - Minimal, for piano *1995 - Brevis for mixed choir and piano *1997 - Alla Mamma, for piano and soprano *1997 - Divertimento, harp and guitar *1998 - Ardo si, ma non t'amo, for two violins, cello and harpsichord *1999 - European Songs for children’s choir and orchestra *2000 - Cosentine Wind for sopran and wind orchestra *2001 - Il piccolo Elian, for narrator and ensemble *2004 - Auf dem berge for Sopran and piano *2005 - Teak, for contrabass *2005 - Celestino V(Davide Remigio-composer,

Ignazio Silone Secondino Tranquilli (1 May 1900 – 22 August 1978), best known by the pseudonym Ignazio Silone (, ), was an Italian politician, novelist, essayist, playwright, and short-story writer, world-famous during World War II for his powerful anti-fasci ...

-author of literary source, Davide Remigio-text author) *2005 - Cartolina a Mozart, for symphony orchestra *2008 - Canti lucani, for soprano, wind orchestra *2009 - Courage, for soprano and piano *2011 - Polish Landscape, for piano *2012 - Prelude, for flute, cello and accordion *2013 - Hands, for piano four hands *2013 - Alcor for oboe *2014 - Bari Prom, for piano *2015 - Autumn, for chamber orchestra *2016 - Trasformation, for violin and cello *2017 - Ritual, for guitar *2018 - Garderns, for sax quartet and four percussionists *2020 - La dolce Mila, for soprano, flute, cello and piano *2021 - Singing the silence, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass

Discography

Italian National Music Committee, Davide Remigio works page

Universal Edition

External sources

Davide Remigio - Official Website
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Universal Edition

Sonzogno page

Italian national music committee - Davide Remigio

Davide Remigio, Composizione , Operabase

Remigio Davide-Petruci Music Library

Artisti - Remigio davide , Il Saxofono Italiano

References

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