Sylvano Bussotti (1931-2021) *89

Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of Contemporary classical music, also a painter, set designer and costume designer, and a theatre director His compositions emmploys unusual notation, which hss often created special problems of interpretation. Born in Florence, Bussotti learned to play the violin as a child, becoming a prodigy. He was also introduced to painting by his uncle Tono Zancanaro and his older brother Renzo Bussotti. At the Florence Conservatory, he studied harmony and counterpoint with Roberto Lupi, and piano with Luigi Dallapiccola, but achieved no diploma due to World War II. He kept studying composition on his own. From 1956, he studied privately in Paris with Max Deutsch, and met Luigi Nono, Pierre Boulez and Heinz-Klaus Metzger who introduced him to the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. His first composition performed in public was Breve, played by Françoise Deslogères at a gallery in Düsseldorf in 1958, with John Cage in the audience. As a composer he was influenced by the twelve-tone music of Webern and later John Cage. Examples of his use of graphic notation in his pieces, often reflecting his personal life, included Lorenzaccio and La passion selon Sade. He also pursued other disciplines including painting, graphic art, and journalism.

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