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Roman Vlad
Composer, pianist, musicologist
Artistic Director of "Scala"
of Milan
Born: December 29, 1919, Cernauti
Citizenship: emigrated in Italy in 1938 and received the
Italian citizenship in 1941
Studies
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graduate of the Conservatory of Cernauti, diploma for piano
forte
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1942 graduate of the University of Rome
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special course at Academia "Santa Cecilia", Rome,
with Alfredo Cassella
Career
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1955-1958 - Artistic director of Roman Philharmonic Academy
- 1958-1962 - Associate manager of the
musical section of the Encyclopedia of Show
- 1960 - President of the Italian Society of Contemporary Music
- 1966-1969 - Artistic director of Roman Philharmonic Academy
- adviser and
collaborator of the Third Program RAI
- 1964 - the Musical
May to Florence
- From 1967 - associate manager of the New Italian Musical Review
- 1968-1972 - Artistic Director of the Communal Theatre of Florence
- 1973-1989 - Artistic Director of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Italian Radio Broadcasting
and Television Company of Turin
- 1973-1992 - President of the Aquilana Concerts Society
- Supervisor of the Theatre of the Work of Rome
Musical Composition
- works composed in various styles and techniques, with the imprint of all
accumulations and trends of the twentieth century, like the Dodecaphonic
Studies for piano (1942) to the total serialism and passing, after 1960,
to aleatory or electronic music.
- Selections
| 1943 |
Studi dodecafonici, per pianoforte (rev.1953) |
| 1950 |
5 Elegie per voce e orchestra d'archi |
| 1951 |
Storia di una mamma, per voce, solo, coro e orchestra |
| 1952 |
5 Elegie per voce e pianoforte |
| 1957 |
Meloritmi, per archi |
| 1961 |
Il dottore di vetro, opera (da Quinault) |
| 1961 |
Ricercare elettronico |
| 1966 |
Cadenze mechelangiolesche, per voce e orchestra |
| 1968 |
Divertimento sinfonico, per orchestra |
| 1968 |
Il gabbiamo, balletto (da Cechov) |
| 1984 |
Tetraktys, per quartetto d'archi |
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Le ciel est vide, cantata |
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De profundis, cantata |
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Dove sei Elaim?, cantata |
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La fontana, opera |
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Il Magico flauto di Severino, variazioni mozartiane per flauto e
pianoforte |
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3 Liriche di Montale, per soprano e pianoforte |
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Pezzo per chitarra e orchestra da camera |
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Il sogno, opera |
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Variazioni concertanti sopra una serie di 12 note dal Don Giovanni di
Mozart |
Affiliations
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1990-1994 - president of the C.i.s.a.c. (Confédération Internationale
DES Auteurs ET Compositeurs). It makes still part of the board of
directors of the same C.i.s.a.c.
- Since 1991 - member of the Koninlijke Academie voor Wetenschappen, Letteren en Schone Kunsten of
Belgium
- 1987-1993 -
President of the S.i.a.e. (Italian Society of Authors and Editors)
- 1994- January 1996 - Extraordinary Commissioner of the S.i.a.e. (Italian Society of
Authors and Editors)
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Member of the Managing
committee of the National Academy of Cecilia Saint
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Artistic Adviser of the Ravenna Festival, the Festival September Music and
the Musical Festival of Ravello
Prizes, Orders and Distinctions
- 1942 - Prize ENESCU for Sinfonietta
- 1950 -
Silver Tape for his cinematographic compositions
- 1974 - Honorary title of Doctor in Music of the National
University of Ireland in Dublin.
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres de l' Académie des
Arts et des Lettres de France
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