Though his sources of inspiration were many and varied, his music has compelling stylistic unity. A pioneer in the use of percussion, polytonality, jazz and aleatory techniques, his music allies lyricism with often complex harmonies. He was associated with the avant garde of the 1920s, whose abundant production reflects all musical genres.
He is now considered, along with Liszt, to be his country’s greatest composer, and, with Kodály and Dohnányi, a founding figure of 20th-century Hungarian musical culture.ĭarius Milhaud: (b Marseilles, 4 Sept 1892 d Geneva, 22 June 1974). Throughout his life he was also receptive to a wide variety of Western musical influences, both contemporary (notably Debussy, Stravinsky, Schoenberg) and historic he acknowledged a change from a more Beethovenian to a more Bachian aesthetic stance in his works from 1926 onwards. His mature works were, however, highly influenced by his ethnomusicological studies, particularly those of Hungarian, Romanian and Slovak peasant musics. Although he earned his living mainly from teaching and playing the piano and was a relentless collector and analyst of folk music, Bartók is recognized today principally as a composer. Hungarian composer, ethnomusicologist and pianist. īéla Bartok: (b Nagyszentmiklós, Hungary, 25 March 1881 d New York, 26 Sept 1945). The music passes from one sonorous world to others which are totally different, and it becomes almost paradoxical. The second phenomenon is the passion for phonetic metamorphosis. Debussy thought of using it in a sonata but his decease prevented him froln writing it. In Italy, first-rate musicians such as Petrassi, Donatoni, Togni, Clementi and Pennisi, have been fascinated by the charm of this sonority, which is exotic and ancestral at the same time. One of them, Luciano Berio, faced this challenge in a spiritual way using absurd and enigmatic chords in his world-famous “Sequenza per chitarra sola”.
During the last decades many composers have written music for guitars challenging the difficulties of this attempt.
The instrument of Sor and Giuliani seemed to be destined almost exclusively to folk music or popular music and had very few illustrious exceptions in the XIX century. There is, above all, the discovery of the guitar. In this cd, two phenomena intersect in the musical reality of today. Description FROM ALBUM NOTES by Mario Bortolotto:
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