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Composer / Conductor of Classical
Italian composer, conductor, and teacher (16 July 1904 – 3 March 2003). Petrassi was born at Zagarolo, near Rome. At the age of 15 he began to work at a music shop to supply his family's financial needs, and became fascinated by music. In 1928, he entered the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome to study organ and composition. In 1934, composer Alfredo Casella conducted Petrassi's Partita for orchestra at the ISCM festival in Amsterdam. Later, Petrassi became musical director of the opera house La Fenice, and from 1959 taught composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Petrassi had many famous students, including Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi, Cornelius Cardew, Ennio Morricone, Karl Korte, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Kenneth Leighton and Richard Teitelbaum. Petrassi died in Rome at the age of 98. Petrassi's early work was part of an attempt by several Italian composers to create a national "Italian" revival in classical music, corresponding to the romantic work of Germans such as Richard Wagner. During this time, his work was characteristically neoclassical in style, influenced by Bartók, Hindemith and Stravinsky. In later years, Petrassi's open musical mind and acute personality led him to experiment with different post-Webernian influences and a wide range of poetic materials, from Latin hymns to Ariosto's La follia d'Orlando and Cervantes' Ritratto di Don Chisciotte. All these influences are present in a remarkable series of eight Concerti for Orchestra which he composed between the late 1930s and the late 1970s.
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Petrassi Dirige Petrassi | Goffredo Petrassi | 2018 | Album |
Piano Concerto, Flute Concerto, La Follia Di Orlando (Ballet Suite) | Goffredo Petrassi – Bruno Canino, Mario Ancillotti, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia | 2014 | Album |
Partita • Divertimento • Quattro Inni Sacri • Coro Di Morti | Goffredo Petrassi – Carlo Putelli, Davide Malvestio, Nuovo Coro Lirico Sinfonico Romano, Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma, Francesco La Vecchia | 2013 | Album |
Musica Da Camera | Luigi Dallapiccola & Goffredo Petrassi – Ensemble Dissonanzen | 2006 | Album |
Concerti Per Orchestra (Integrale - Complete) | Goffredo Petrassi, Nederlands Radio Symfonie Orkest, Arturo Tamayo | 2004 | Album |
String Trios | Paul Hindemith - Goffredo Petrassi - Sándor Veress, Trio Contrechamps | 2001 | Album |
Integrale Delle Opere Per Pianoforte - Complete Piano Works | Goffredo Petrassi – Roberto Prosseda | 2001 | Album |
Poema • Kyrie • Frammento • Concerto Per Flauto • Ritratto Di Don Chisciotte | Goffredo Petrassi - Chor Des Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Ed Orchestra Of The Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Giampaolo Pretto, Arturo Tamayo | 1999 | Album |
Harp XX | Paul Hindemith, Ernst Krenek, Germaine Tailleferre, Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, Goffredo Petrassi, Sylvano Bussotti, Claudia Antonelli | 1999 | Album |
Otto Concerti Per Orchestra | Goffredo Petrassi, Zoltán Peskó | 1996 | Album |
Die Werke Für Flöte - Complete Works For Flute | Goffredo Petrassi - Mario Ancillotti, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Hubert Soudant | 1996 | Album |
Sonata Da Camera, Beatitudines, Grand Septuor, Sestina D'autunno | Goffredo Petrassi | 1995 | Album |
Récréation Concertante - Inni Sacri - Noche Oscura - Ecc. | Goffredo Petrassi | 1994 | Album |
Flute | Severino Gazzelloni, Bruno Canino, Orchestra Della Radio Televisione Della Svizzera Italiana, Donato Renzetti, Antonio Vivaldi, Georg Friedrich Händel, Benedetto Marcello, Ludwig van Beethoven, Edgard Varèse, Goffredo Petrassi, Kazuo Fukushima | 1993 | Album |
Cronaca Familiare | Goffredo Petrassi | 1992 | Album |
Coro Di Morti / Noche Oscura / Salmo IX | Goffredo Petrassi - Bruno Canino, Eli Perrotta, Antonio Ballista, Coro Polifonico di Milano, Orchestra Dell'Angelicum Di Milano / Chor Des Hessischen Rundfunks Und Sinfonie-Orchester Des Hessischen Rundfunks, Bruno Maderna / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Roma Della RAI E Coro Di Milano Della RAI | 1992 | Album |
Settimane Per I Beni Musicali | Goffredo Petrassi | 1990 | Album |
Cronaca Familiare / Banditi A Orgosolo | Goffredo Petrassi / Valentino Bucchi | 1988 | Compil. |
Il Cordovano | Goffredo Petrassi | 1987 | Album |
Goffredo Petrassi | Goffredo Petrassi, I Solisti Di Roma | 1985 | Single |
Otto Concerti Per Orchestra | Goffredo Petrassi - Zoltán Peskó | 1984 | Album |
Radiotelevisione Della Svizzera Italiana / Disco Commemorativo / 50 Anni Radio / 25 Anni Televisione / Solisti, Coro E Orchestra Della RTSI | Gioacchino Rossini, Franz Schubert, Mily Balakirev, Ludwig Senfl, Manfredo Barberini, Goffredo Petrassi, Johannes Brahms, Marc Andreae, Otmar Nussio, Leopoldo Casella, James Loomis, Luciano Sgrizzi, Edwin Loehrer | 1983 | Compil. |
Musiche Di Benvenuti Donatoni Dallapiccola Lupi Lolini Petrassi | Liliana Poli, Fausta Cianti - Arrigo Benvenuti / Franco Donatoni / Luigi Dallapiccola / Roberto Lupi / Ruggero Lolini / Goffredo Petrassi | 1981 | Album |
Quinto Concerto Per Orchestra / Invenzione Concertata (Sesto Concerto) Per Archi, Ottoni E Percussione | Goffredo Petrassi - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Della RAI, Zoltán Peskó | 1980 | Album |
Secondo E Settimo Concerto Per Orchestra | Goffredo Petrassi - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Zoltán Peskó | 1979 | Album |
Coro Di Morti - Nonsense - Quattro Inni Sacri | Goffredo Petrassi | 1978 | Compil. |
Suoni Notturni • Seconda Serenata~Trio • Nunc • Alias | Goffredo Petrassi - Vincenzo Saldarelli • Claudia Antonelli • Riccardo Pellegrino • Mariolina De Robertis | 1978 | Album |
L'Opera Per Pianoforte (Invenzioni / Oh, Les Beaux Jours! / Siciliana E Marcia / Toccata) | Goffredo Petrassi - Lya De Barberis | 1977 | Album |
Ottavo Concerto Per Orchestra • (Primo) Concerto Per Orchestra | Goffredo Petrassi - BBC Symphony Orchestra, Zoltán Peskó | 1977 | Album |
Elogio Per Un'Ombra • Souffle • Ala • Introduzione E Allegro | Goffredo Petrassi - Georg Mönch, Angelo Persichilli, Mariolina De Robertis, Luis Bacalov | 1977 | Album |
Estri / Tre per Sette / Serenata / Beatitudines | Goffredo Petrassi - Gastone Sarti, Solisti Di Teatromusica | 1975 | Album |
Recreation Concertante / Quarto Concerto | Goffredo Petrassi / Zoltán Peskó | 1973 | Album |
Trio Per Archi / Quartetto Per Archi | Goffredo Petrassi - Trio Italiano D'Archi / Quatuor Parrenin | 1972 | Album |
20th Century Music For Flute | Severino Gazzelloni / Margaret Kitchin Works By Hans Werner Henze, Goffredo Petrassi, Kazuo Fukushima & Bohuslav Martinů | 1970 | Album |
RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana - Musiche di Berio Bussotti Dallapiccola Malipiero Petrassi | Luciano Berio - Sylvano Bussotti - Luigi Dallapiccola - Gian Francesco Malipiero - Goffredo Petrassi | 1969 | Album |
Partita / Coro Di Morti | Goffredo Petrassi | 1967 | Album |
Récréation Concertante (Concerto N. 3) - Mottetti Per La Passione | Goffredo Petrassi | 1967 | Album |
La "Generazione Del Novecento" | Goffredo Petrassi, Claudio Monteverdi | 1966 | Single |
Quattro Pezzi (Orchestrated By Ghedini) / Concerto No.1 For Orchestra | Girolamo Frescobaldi, Goffredo Petrassi, Fernando Previtali Conducting Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | 1956 | Album |
Symphony No. 6 / Portrait Of Don Quixote | Gian Francesco Malipiero / Goffredo Petrassi | 1956 | Album |
Moderne Flötenkammermusik (Neue Reihe Neue Musik) | Albert Roussel / Goffredo Petrassi / Bruno Maderna / Bernd Alois Zimmermann / Frank Michael - Sigrid Eppinger, Sybille Haas, Friedrich Kleinknecht, Helga Kirwald | Album | |
Invenzioni · Serenata · Duetto · Laudes Creaturarum · Grand Septuor | Goffredo Petrassi | Album | |
"Il Tempo Del Dolore" Mottetti Per La Passione | Goffredo Petrassi, Mino Bordignon, Coro da Camera di Milano, Josquin Des Prés, Roland de Lassus, Johannes Brahms, Felice Anerio | Album | |
Cuatro Siglos De Musica Italiana Para Guitarra | Francesco Canova da Milano, Ludovico Roncalli, Mauro Giuliani, Niccolò Paganini, Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Goffredo Petrassi, Ernesto Bitetti | Album | |
Coro di Morti - Symphonie | Goffredo Petrassi, Henri Dutilleux, Pierre Dervaux, Orchestre Du Théâtre National De L'Opéra-Comique, Symphony Orchestra Of Rome, Ferruccio Scaglia | Album | |
Coro Di Morti, Nonsense, Quattro Inni Sacri | Goffredo Petrassi | Album |