Angelo Gilardino

Angelo Gilardino (born 1941 in Vercelli) is an Italian composer, guitarist and musicologist.

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1941 - Vercelli - Italian - Composer - Guitarist - Musicologist

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During his concert career, from 1958 to 1981, he premiered hundreds of new works for the guitar. He taught at the Liceo Musicale G. B. Viotti in Vercelli from 1965 to 1981, and held a professorship at the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria from 1981 to 2004. The Conservatory awarded him the Marengo Music Prize in 1998.

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1958 - 1981 - 2004 - 1998

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Gilardino has composed much music for solo guitar, as well as chamber music and concertos. His solo works include five volumes of Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza (1981-1988), four sonatas (1985, 1986, 2004, 2004), two sets of variations (1989, 1991), and Ikonostas for a guitar tuned in G (2004). He has also written four works for guitar with guitar orchestra, seven concertos for guitar, some in combination with other instruments (including mandolin and accordion), and several duets (for guitar with bassoon, cello, violin and vibraphone).

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Chamber music - Concerto - 1988 - Sonatas - Variations - 1989 - 1991 - 2004 - Mandolin - Accordion - Duet - Bassoon - Cello - Violin - Vibraphone

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Since 1967, Gilardino has supervised the publication of hundreds of new guitar works by Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. He has also made many musicological discoveries, including the Variazioni by Ottorino Respighi, the Sonata by Antonio José, and several works written for the guitarist Andrés Segovia by Cyril Scott, Pierre de Bréville, Lennox Berkeley and many others. He became artistic director of the Andrés Segovia Foundation of Linares in 1997.

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1967 - Ottorino Respighi - Antonio José - Andrés Segovia - Cyril Scott - Pierre de Bréville - Lennox Berkeley - 1997

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