Salvatorre Sciarrino
Composer
Italian,
1947-
Born in Sicily in 1947, SALVATORE SCIARRINO at first taught himself music, later studying with Antonio Titone and Turi Belfiore in Rome and Milan. His music is intimate and refined, largely constructed through the microvariation of sonorities, and exhibits an extraordinary sensitivity to tim-bre and instrumental color. He has received, among oth-ers, the first prize of the International Society of Contempo-rary Music SIMC (1971 and 1974) and the Dallapiccola Prize (1974).
Selected works by Salvatorre Sciarrino:
- Omaggio a Burri (1995)
- Centauro Marino
“All I say is that non-experts often know more than experts and should therefore be consulted and that prophets of truth (including those who use arguments) more often than not are carried along by a visions that clashes with the very events that vision is supposed to be exploring.
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--Paul K. Feyerabend, Against Method