Maderna, Bruno
Musical-theatrical works
Das eiserne Zeitalten (ballet), 1952-3, inc.
Il moschettiere fantasma (film score, dir. Calandri, W. French), 1952
Macbeth (ballet, A.A. Milloss, after W. Shakespeare), 6 Sept 1962, inc
Hyperion (lirica in forma di spettacolo, Maderna, V. Puecher, after F. Hölderlin, phonemes by H.G. Helms), Venice, Fenice, 6 Oct 1964; rev. as Hyperion en het geweld (W.H. Auden, García Lorca, Hölderlin), Brussels, Monnaie, 17 May 1968; rev. as Hyperion-Orfeo dolente, Bologna, Palazzo Bentivoglio, 18 July 1968; concert excerpts: Dimensioni III, fl, orch, 1963; Aria da 'Hyperion' (Hölderlin), S, fl, orch, 1964; Hyperion = Dimensioni III + Aria da 'Hyperion'; Hyperion II = Hyperion + Cadenze; derived works: Dimensioni no.2; La rire; Entropia I, II, III; Dimensioni IV = Dimensioni III + Stele per Diotima; Hyperion III = Hyperion + Stele per Diotima; Gesti, chorus, orch, 1969; Suite, chorus, orch, 1969
Von A bis Z (incid music, R. Rass), tape, Darmstadt, 1969
Satyricon
(op, Maderna, I. Strasfogel, after Petronius), Scheveningen, 16 March
1973 (See also radio and tv scores [Don Perlimplin], below)
Orchestral and large ensemble
Introduzione e passacaglia 'Lauda sion salvatorem', 1942
Piano Concerto, before 1946
Concerto, 2 pf, insts, 1948
Composizione no.1, 1948-9; no.2, 1950
Improvvisazione no.1, 1951-2; no.2, 1953
Composizione in tre tempi, 1954
Flute Concerto, 1954
Divertimento, 1957: 1st movt, 'Dark Rapture Crawl'; rest by Berio
Piano Concerto, 1959
Oboe Concerto no.1, 1962
Entropia I, 1963 [from dramatic work Hyperion]
Entropia II, 1963 [from Hyperion]
Dimensioni III, fl, orch, 1963-4 [from Hyperion, incl. Entropia I, II]
Stele per Diotima, 1965 [from Hyperion]
Dimensioni IV, fl, pic, a fl, b fl, chbr orch, 1964 [from Hyperion, incl. Dimensioni III, Stele per Diotima]
Amanda (Serenata VI), chbr orch, 1966
Oboe Concerto no.2, 1967
Entropia III, 1968-9 [from Hyperion]
Quadrivium, 4 perc, 4 groups, 1969
Violin Concerto, 1969
Grande aulodia, fl, ob, orch, 1970
Juilliard Serenade (Tempo libero II), small orch, tape, 1970-1
Aura, 1972
Biogramma, 1972
Giardino religioso, small orch, 1972
Oboe Concerto no.3, 1973
Vocal music
Alba (V. Cardarelli), A, str orch, 1937-40
Requiem, SATB, chorus, orch, before 1946, inc., lost
Liriche su Verlaine, S, pf, 1946-7
Tre liriche greche (Ibykos, Melanippides, anon.), S, chorus, insts, 1948
Studi per 'Il processo' di Kafka, S, spkr, orch, 1950
Quattro lettere (B. Frittaion, anon., F. Kafka, A. Gramsci), chbr cant., S, B, chbr orch, 1953
Aria da 'Hyperion' (F. Hölderlin), S, fl, orch, 1964 [from Hyperion]
Hyperion, S, fl, orch, 1964 [from Hyperion, incl. Dimensioni III, Aria da Hyperion]
Hyperion II, S, fl, orch, 1965-6 [from Hyperion, incl. Dimensioni III, Aria da Hyperion, Cadenza, fl]
Hyperion III, S, fl, orch, 1965-6 [from Hyperion, incl. concert work Hyperion, Stele per Diotima]
Gesti (Hölderlin), chorus, orch, 1969 [from Hyperion]
Suite (W.H. Auden, F. García Lorca, Hölderlin), 2 fl, ob/ob d'amore, S, chorus, orch, 1969 [from Hyperion]: Klage,
Message, Psalm, Schicksalslied
Ausstrahlung (anon.), female v, fl, ob, orch, tape, 1971
All the World's a Stage (Shakespeare), chorus, 1972 [incl. in radio score Ages]
Venetian Journal (J. Levy, after J. Boswell), T, small orch, tape, 1972
Chamber music
Serenata, 11 insts; String Quartet; other pieces; all before 1946
Fantasia e fuga, 2 pf, 1949
Musica su due dimensioni (Dimensioni no.1), fl, cymbals, tape, 1952; rev., fl, tape, 1958; finalized 1963
Divertimento in due tempi, fl, pf, 1953
Serenata, 11 insts, 1954; rev. as Serenata no.2, 1957
Str Qt, 2 movts, 1955
Serenata IV, fl, insts, tape, 1961
Honeyrêves, fl, pf, 1962
Per Caterina, vn, pf, 1963
Aulodia per Lothar, ob d'amore, gui ad lib, 1965
Serenata für Claudia, vn, cemb, 1968
Serenata per un satellite, ens, 1969
Dialodia, 2 fl/rec/ob, 1971
Ständchen für Tini, vn, va, 1972
Solo instrumental
Cadenze, fl, 1965 [incl. in Hyperion II, 1965-6]
Widmung, vn, 1967
Pièce pour Ivry, vn, 1971
Solo, ob + ob d'amore + eng hn + musette, 1971
Viola (Viola d'amore), va/va d'amore, 1971
Y después, gui, 1971
Electo-acoustic music
Ritratto di città, 1954, collab. L. Berio and R. Leydi
Sequenze e strutture, 1954
Notturno, 1956
Syntaxis, 1957
Continuo, 1958
Dimensioni no.2 ('Invenzione su una voce') (phonemes by Helms), 1960 [from Hyperion]
Serenata III, 1961
Le rire, 1962
Tempo libero I, 1970: see stage [Von A bis Z]; radio and tv scores [Ages]
Radio and t.v. scores
Il mio cuore è nel sud (radio play, G. Patroni Griffi), RAI, 1950
L'augellin Belverde (radio play, after C. Gozzi), 1958
L'altro mondo, ovvero Gli stati e imperi della luna (radio play, A. Brissoni, after J. Swift: Gulliver's Travels), 1959
Amor di violino (radio play, E. Carsana), 1959-60
Il cavallo di Troia (radio musical, 2, G. Da Venezia and U. Liberatore), 1960
Macbeth (radio play, W. Shakespeare), 1960
Il puff (radio play, E. Scribe), 1960
Don Perlimplin (radio op, Maderna, after F. García Lorca), 1961; RAI, 12 Aug 1962
Ritratto di Erasmo (radio play, Maderna), RAI, 1969
Ages (radio play, W. Shakespeare, G. Pressburger), 1972
Other incid music for which scenes and frags. survive, incl.
Giulio Cesare (radio score, Shakespeare), 1959,
I padri nemici (TV score), 1956,
Medea (TV score), 1957,
Yerma (radio score, García Lorca)
Film scores (directors' names in parentheses)
Sangue a Ca' Foscari (M. Calandri), 1946;
I misteri di Venezia (I. Ferronetti), 1950;
Le due verità (A. Leonviola), 1951;
Il moschettiere fantasma (Calandri, W. French), 1952;
Il fabbro del convento (A. Leonviola), 1953;
Noi cannibali (Leonviola), 1953;
Opinione pubblica (M. Corgnati), 1954;
La morte ha fatto l'uovo (G. Questi), 1968
Editions
A. Vivaldi: Concs. RV118, 120, 179, 186, 231, 352 (Milan, 1947-9)
M. Ziani: Il sepolcro, orat, before 1957, unpubd
G. Carissimi: Historia divitis, Diluvium universale, orat, before 1958, lost
C. Monteverdi: Orfeo (Milan, 1967)
L. da Viadana: Le sinfonie: 'La venexiana', 'La veronese', 'La Romana', 'La mantovana', chbr orch (Milan, 1967)
D. Belli: Orfeo dolente (Milan, 1968)
A. Vivaldi: Beatus vir (Milan, 1969)
G.B. Pergolesi: Orfeo, cant. (Zürich, 1977)
G.B. Pergolesi: Palestrina-Konzert (Concertino no.3) (Zürich, 1977)
Transcriptions and arrangements
O. Vecchi: Amfipernaso (Darmstadt, 1952), lost
G. Legrenzi: La Basadonna, chbr orch (Zürich, 1953)
G. Frescobaldi: Tre Pezzi, chbr orch (Zürich, 1954)
G. Gabrieli: In ecclesiis, large orch (Milan, 1966)
Josquin Des Prez: Magnificat quarti toni, chorus, 3 groups of insts (Milan, 1967)
F. Schubert: Cinque danze, orch (Milan, 1968)
Music of Gaiety, chbr orch (Ricordi, 1969) [arr. of 5 pieces from Fitzwilliam Virginal Book]
Ottavino Petrucci's Odhecaton, small orch (Zürich, c1950) [incl. works by Josquin, Compère, Okeghem and others]
Principal publishers
Ricordi
Salabert
Schott
Suvini Zerboni
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