Luca Lombardi

Luca Lombardi (born 24 December 1945 in Rome) is an Italian composer.

Biography

Lombardi studied composition initially with Armando Renzi and Roberto Lupi, later enrolling at the Pesaro Conservatory where he studied with Boris Porena, receiving his diploma in 1970. He then studied musicology at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on Hanns Eisler. From 1968 to 1972 he lived in Cologne where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Henri Pousseur, Mauricio Kagel, Dieter Schnebel, and Frederic Rzewski at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann at the Hochschule für Musik. He also studied for a time in Berlin with Paul Dessau in 1973 at the Akademie der Künste.

Faust: "Un travestimento" (libretto by the composer, after E. Sanguineti) (1986–90)
Prospero (after William Shakespeare's play The Tempest)

Alle fronde dei Salici, for 12 voices (to texts by Salvatore Quasimodo, 1977)
Tui-Gesänge, for soprano and 5 instruments (flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello; to texts by Albrecht Betz,1977)
Hasta que Caigan las Puertas del Odio, for 16 voices (to texts by Pablo Neruda, 1977)
E subito riprende il viaggio, for 5 voices (to texts by Ungaretti, 1979-80)
Majakowski, cantata for bass, mixed choir and 7 instruments (to texts by Mayakovsky, 1979-80)
Mythenasche, for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and chamber orchestra (to texts by A. Betz, 1981)

Proporzioni, for 4 trombones (1968–69)
Non requiescat, musica in memoria di Hanns Eisler, for chamber orchestra (1973)
Gespräch über Bäume, for eight instrumentalists (1976)
Klavierduo, for 2 pianos (1978–89)
Einklang, for oboe, cor anglais, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, viola, cello, and double-bass (1980)
Winterblumen, for flute and harp (1982)
Sisyphos, for flute, clarinet, mandoline, guitar, marimba, harp, viola, and double-bass (1984)
Sisyphos II, for 14 instruments (1984)
Sisifo felice, for eight instrumentalists (1985)
Ai piedi del faro, for double-bass and eight instrumentalists (1986)
String Quartet No.1 ("Quartett vom armen Mann", 1991–92)
Bagatelles sans et avec tonalité, for piano four-hands (1992)
Jahreswechsel, for chamber ensemble (1993–94)
Addii, for violin, cello, and piano (1995–96)
Infra, for 11 instrumentalists (1997)
Geburtstagsgruß für Thomas und Bernhard, for violin and viola (2003)

Ramazzotti, Marinella (2002). "Lombardi, Luca". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
Lombardi, Luca (1982). "Construction of Freedom". Perspectives of New Music, Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 1983 - Summer, 1984), pp. 253-264. Translated by Franco Betti