(b. 15 December 1955, Cremona).
Italian composer of mostly chamber and piano works that have been performed throughout Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Taglietti studied composition with Davide Anzaghi and Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where he earned his diploma in 1981. He also studied piano with Maria Grazia Bertocchi during this time.
Among his honours are prizes in the competition Guido d'Arezzo in Arezzo (1988), the competition Franco Evangelisti (1989), the competition Mario Zafred (1990), and the competition Valentino Caracciolo (1991). His music has been performed in Argentina, Croatia, the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland.
He is also active in other positions. He has performed as a pianist with the ensemble Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona and has organised the festival Spazionovecento in Cremona. He has translated many essays on music, including the Scritti critici by Robert Schumann (1990), and arranged the rhythmic version of the libretto for the opera Das Verratene Meer by Hans Werner Henze for the Teatro alla Scala in Milan (1990). In addition, he has translated the complete correspondence between Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg (1993), four essays by Theodor W. Adorno (2001) and Il Velo dell'Ordine, a version of Ausgerechnet ich, a book of conversations between Alfred Brendel and Martin Meyer (2003, Adelphi).
He taught the history and techniques of contemporary music at the Scuola di Paleografia Musicale in Cremona in 1993 and has taught composition at the Conservatorio Lucio Campiani in Mantua since 1997.
His publishers are Casa Ricordi, Casa Sonzogno, Nuova Stradivarius, and Rai Trade.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Comiche (comic melodrama, text after Gianni Celati), actor, trumpet, percussion, fixed media, 1996
Nella Torre (opera–melodrama, text by Friedrich Hölderlin), soprano, actor, flute, piano, fixed media, 2005 (also French translation as Dans la tour, 2007)
Cagnolati (musical tale, text by Daniele Benati), coloratura soprano, actor, clarinets (1 player), fixed media, 2011
ORCHESTRAL:
Paesaggi con l'unicorno, piano, small orchestra (13 players), 1982
L'Arancia di Mozart, small orchestra (13 players), 1989
Varianti sull'occhio, 1990
Il Circo invisibile, small orchestra, 1991
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Le Rondini, string quartet, 1976
Canzoni senza parole, 4 percussion, 1981, revised 1992
Leggero, flute, clarinet, string quartet, 1982
Lame di luce su libri aperti, string quartet, 1983
Canzoni delle libellule elettriche, flute, 1984
Trio n. 1, violin, cello, piano, 1985, revised 1988
Capriccio, viola, piano, 1985
Danze, marimba, ensemble (flute, oboe, clarinet, violin, viola, cello), 1985
Lune, A-clarinet, French horn, violin, viola, cello, 1986
Trio n. 2, violin, viola, cello, 1987
Duo Seraphim, 2 trumpets, 1987
Macchine, alto flute, bass clarinet, French horn, viola, cello, piano, vibraphone, 1987
Statua di dio greco, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1990
Memorie eroicomiche, guitar, 1992
Quartetto n. 4, 'Un Curioso Ossimoro', string quartet, 1994
Trio n. 3, 'Marmi', viola, cello, piano, 1994
Trio n. 4, 'Tre Pezzi caratteristici', clarinet, violin, piano, 1995 (also version as Trio n. 4b, 'Tre Pezzi caratteristici', flute, clarinet, piano, 1996)
Aria, violin, fixed media, 1995
Melodia, flute, fixed media, 1995
Gypsy Requiem, sampler, 2 percussion, fixed media (4 tracks), live electronics, 1997
C-Jam for Duke, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1999
Adagio (frammento), viola, fixed media, 1999
Capriccio sopra la battaglia, bassoon, 2000 (also version as Secondo Capriccio sopra la battaglia, bassoon, fixed media, 2002)
Tre Leggende, flute, piano, 2000
Castello in aria, contrabass recorder, fixed media, 2000
Tre Capricci, violin, 2001
Tre Fantasie, accordion, 2003
Nella Nebbia, flute, violin, 2003
Happy b, piccolo, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2007
El Maleficio de la Mariposa (four fragments for a ballet after Federico García Lorca), clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 2007
Variazioni brillanti, cello, piano, 2008 (reconstruction of the missing part for cello of the Variationen by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
Tre Pezzi e Due Trascrizioni da Ockeghem, 2 violas, 2009
L'Uomo con la chitarra blu e altri capricci (homage to Wallace Stevens), violin, 2010
CHORAL:
Due Canzoni su testo sacro, 6 mixed voices, 1989
Sonetto del Petrarca (Solo e pensoso) (text by Francesco Petrarca), soprano, mixed chorus, piano, 2005
Amore langueo (mystic oratorio, texts from letters by Osanna of Mantua, the Song of Solomon [Latin translation], the hymn Crux fidelis by Venantius Fortunatus), soprano, female speaker, male speaker, children's chorus, mixed chorus, 2 bassoons, piano, 2 accordions, 4 percussion, fixed media, 2006
VOCAL:
Canzone del carpentiere Duplay, baritone, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, tuba, cello, double bass, piano, marimba, 1989
La Casa di Sé, soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1993
Tre Canzoni andaluse (texts from folksongs from Andalusia), soprano, large orchestra (minimum 61 players), 1996
Tre Canzoni su testi di Eichendorff (text by Joseph von Eichendorff), voice, piano, 1999
PIANO:
Diario del trapezista, 1991
Sfingi, piano 4 hands, 1998
Otto Studi, 1999–2006
Allegro con fuoco, 2006 (reconstruction of an unfinished movement from a sonata by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy)
Sonata n. 1, 'Giardino delle sculture radiose', 2007
Tre Fantasie, 2009–10
ORGAN:
Lume, 1998
DIDACTIC MUSIC:
Che cosa sognano gli angeli, 2 flutes, 1988
Serenata di Arlecchino, 2 violins, 1988
Tre Storielle del Bosco, 2/3 flutes, 1998
Piccolo fabbro, guitar, 2004
DISCOGRAPHY
Trio n. 1; Aria; Quartetto n. 4, 'Un Curioso Ossimoro'; Sfingi; Lune; Capriccio; Trio n. 3, 'Marmi'. Gruppo Musica Insieme di Cremona (Dischi Ricordi Oggi: CRMCD 1058, 2001)
La Casa di Sé. Sara Stowe, soprano; Giorgio Bernasconi/Ensemble Contrechamps (BMG Ricordi/Fonit Cetra: CDC 503)
Amore langueo. Sonia Visentin, soprano; Gabrio Taglietti/Ricercare Ensemble, ensemble of the Conservatorio Lucio Campiani (Conservatorio Lucio Campiani: CMN 06/2010)
Allegro con fuoco. Roberto Prosseda, piano (Decca Records: 476 6796)
Trio n. 4b, 'Tre Pezzi caratteristici'. Icarus Ensemble (Dischi Ricordi Oggi)
Otto Studi. Antonio Sardi de Letto, piano (Stradivarius: STR 33827)