Casella: Le liriche degli anni di Parigi

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Lorna Windsor
Raffaele Cortesi
Alfredo Casella

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Compositional Technique

Casella's approach to polytonality, a musical technique using multiple keys simultaneously, found justification in traditional harmony by considering modulation as simultaneousness rather than a sequence of chords.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Casella's 'Italian nature' defended him against fully embracing dodecaphony, a compositional method developed by Arnold Schoenberg, despite his admiration for it.

Compositional Technique

Casella's early vocal works often broke from traditional text settings, creating broader, freer musical spaces with unusual harmonic ideas.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Casella's 'Parisian years' were marked by a 'taste for stylistic adventures' and an 'unfulfilled quest for novelty,' which shaped his musical evolution.

Composition History

Casella harmonized two ancient songs, 'Flaïolet' and 'Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,' for a competition organized by the 'Maison du Lied,' an institution founded by Russian singer Marija Alekseevna Olenina.

Composer Biography

Alfredo Casella, an Italian composer, spent nearly two decades in Paris, first as a piano student and then as a concert performer, where his personality flourished.