Sylvano Bussotti

Sylvano Bussotti
Bussotti in 2006
Born(1931-10-01)1 October 1931
Florence, Italy
Died19 September 2021(2021-09-19) (aged 89)
Milan, Italy
EducationFlorence Conservatory
Occupation(s)Composer, painter, designer
Organizations
SpouseRocco Quaglia
AwardsISCM Prize

Sylvano Bussotti (1 October 1931 – 19 September 2021) was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. His first opera was La Passion selon Sade, premiered in Palermo in 1965. Later operas and ballets were premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Lirico di Milano, Teatro Regio di Torino and Piccola Scala di Milano, among others. He was artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, the Puccini Festival and the music section of the Venice Biennale. He taught internationally, for a decade at the Fiesole School of Music. He is regarded as a leading composer of Italy's avantgarde, and a Renaissance man with many talents who combined the arts expressively.[1]

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