Salvatore Sciarrino (born Palermo, Sicily, Italy, April 4, 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. His work is avant-garde, and he is known for his use of isolated sonorities, extended playing techniques, frequent silences, and ironic or confrontational quotation of previous music (for instance, American pop music) or stories (such as in Lohengrin). His works include a large body of chamber music, including many pieces for wind instruments, five piano sonatas, and several operas or theatrical works including Perseo ed Andromeda, Lohengrin, and Luci mie traditrici. Sciarrino lives in Città di Castello, Umbria. Bibliography · Bartolini, Donatella . 1999. "La genialità? Il segreto è nell'universo infantile: Intervista a Salvatore Sciarrino". Nuova rivista musicale italiana 32, no. 2 (Apr-June): 227?32. · Boni, Monica, and Luigi Pestalozza. 1997.

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