Severino Gazzellone (5 January 1919 – 21 November 1992), known as Severino Gazzelloni, was an Italian
flutist
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.
Biography
He was born in
Roccasecca and died in
Cassino
Cassino () is a ''comune'' in the province of Frosinone at the southern end of the region of Lazio. It's the last city of the Valle Latina, Latin Valley.
It is located at the foot of Monte Cairo near the confluence of the Gari (river), Gari and ...
. Gazzelloni was the principal flautist with the
RAI National Symphony Orchestra
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in
Turin
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for 30 years and dedicatee of many works. Composers including
Luciano Berio
Luciano Berio (24 October 1925 – 27 May 2003) was an Italian composer noted for his experimental music, experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition ''Sinfonia (Berio), Sinfonia'' and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled ''Seque ...
(Sequenza I for solo flute, 1958),
Pierre Boulez
Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez (; 26 March 19255 January 2016) was a French composer, conductor and writer, and the founder of several musical institutions. He was one of the dominant figures of post-war contemporary classical music.
Born in Montb ...
,
Bruno Maderna
Bruno Maderna (born Bruno Grossato, 21 April 1920 – 13 November 1973) was an Italian composer, conductor and academic teacher.
Life
Maderna was born Bruno Grossato in Venice but later decided to take the name of his mother, Caterina Carolina M ...
and
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ( – 6 April 1971) was a Russian composer and conductor with French citizenship (from 1934) and American citizenship (from 1945). He is widely considered one of the most important and influential 20th-century c ...
wrote pieces for him.
Gazzelloni was also a flute teacher. Some of his notable pupils include
jazz
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player
Eric Dolphy
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, classical flautist
Abbie de Quant, flautists Ann Cherry and
Carol Wincenc, composer
Norma Beecroft, and audio engineer
Marina Bosi. Dolphy honoured Gazzelloni by naming a composition for him which he included in his 1964 ''
Out to Lunch!
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'' album.
In summer 1976 he toured through Italy, performing with classical pianist
Bruno Canino and a
jazz
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combo that included
Enrico Intra (
piano
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), Giancarlo Barigozzi (
tenor saxophone
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),
Pino Presti (
electric bass
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),
Tullio De Piscopo (
drums
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), and Sergio Farina
(
electric guitar
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).
Filmography
* 1980: ''
"FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?"''
References
Bibliography
* Alessandra Vaccarone, ''Riflessi d'un flauto d'oro. Severino Gazzelloni e la letteratura flautistica contemporanea (1952-1980)'',
Rome
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, Riverberi Sonori, 2002.
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1919 births
1992 deaths
20th-century Italian musicians
Italian jazz musicians
Italian male jazz musicians
Italian classical musicians
20th-century Italian flautists