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Aldo Clementi (25 May, 1925 - 3 March, 2011) was the last survivor of the great generation of Italian postwar musical avant-
gardists. He was also its quietest and most self-effacing member, both personally and musically. After a hesitant start, he
developed a technique that allowed him to produce works as calmly consistent in sound and technique as a Renaissance
motet, and some would say just as beautiful.
His style of decelerating canons has been described as “sharing in the widespread post-serial depression of the 1970s”, while
Paul Griffiths referred to the “Alexandrian si ...read more
Aldo Clementi (25 May, 1925 - 3 March, 2011) was the last survivor of the great generation of Italian postwar musical avant-
gardists. He was also its quietest and most self-effacing member, both personally and musically. After a hesitant start, he
developed a technique that allowed him to produce works as calmly consistent in sound and technique as a Renaissance
motet, and some would say just as beautiful.
His style of decelerating canons has been described as “sharing in the widespread post-serial depression of the 1970s”, while
Paul Griffiths referred to the “Alexandrian simplicity of his solution to the current confusion in music”. Clementi himself
described his works as “an extremely dense counterpoint, relegating the parts to the shameful role of inaudible, cadaverous
micro-organisms”.
Clementi was born in Catania, Sicily, far from the centres of musical modernism. His talent was encouraged by his father, a
keen amateur violinist. Aldo was a promising pianist, and in the salons of Catania he played the music that would one day be
at the centre of his own, but mysteriously transformed: Bach, Schubert, Schumann and Mendelssohn. He also began to
compose, receiving guidance from Alfredo Sangiorgi, a pupil of Arnold Schoenberg.
Clementi’s studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After
receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962. « hide |
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