Giacinto Scelsi
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About
Giacinto Scelsi, Count of Ayala Valva (8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988), was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for writing music based around only one pitch, altered in all manners through microtonal oscillations, harmonic allusions, and changes in timbre and dynamics, as paradigmatically exemplified in his revolutionary "Quattro pezzi su una nota sola" ("Four Pieces on a single note", 1959). His musical output
Top Tracks
Duo for Violin and Cello, Pt. 2
Scelsi EP
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Discography
Intégrale des quatuors à cordes / Trio à cordes
Album2024Visioni del Novecento
Album2022Il Nuovo Contrabbasso Italiano
Album2021Suite 8 & 11 per pianoforte
Album2020Collection, Vol. 7
Album2017Duo for Violin and Cello / Invertebrate Harmonics / Honshirabe
EP2016Suite 9 & 10 per pianoforte
Album2015Italia
Album2014The Violin Works
Album2013The Viola Works: Manto / Coelocanth / Elegia per Ty / Three Studies / Xnoybis
Album2011
