Fausto Romitelli

Fausto Romitelli (1 February 1963 – 27 June 2004) was an Italian composer.

Life and career Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia, Italy. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory and subsequently took part in courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Franco Donatoni and at the Scuola Civica di Milano. In 1991, he moved to Paris, where he became a student of Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey. From 1993 to 1995, he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM.

Romitelli achieved successes in numerous European competitions, and his music has been performed by ensembles such as Berg Orchestra and at festivals such as the , , Steirischer Herbst (Graz), the Venice Biennale, and the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. His video opera An Index of Metals (2003) was awarded the Franco Abbiati Prize by the National Association of Music Critics in Italy in 2004.

He died aged 41 in Milan on 27 June 2004, following a long battle with cancer.

Works

1980s Suite for chamber ensemble, 1982 (unpublished) Dia Nykta for solo flute, 1982 Versilia for soprano and orchestra, 1983 (unpublished) Lustralis for wind quintet, 1983 (unpublished) Solare for solo guitar, 1983 Dimensioni for 16 performers, 1984 (unpublished) Highway to Hell for solo guitar, 1984 Furit aestus for soprano and instrumental quintet, 1985 Invita la sua ninfa all'ombra for soprano and cello, 1986 (text by Giovan Battista Marino) Ganimede for solo viola, 1986 Ariel song for voice and guitar, 1987 (unpublished) Pallide sabbie for orchestra, 1987 (unpublished) Coralli for solo guitar, 1987 Simmetria d'oggetti for recorder and guitar, 1987–88 Have your trip for harp, guitar and mandolin, 1988–89 Kû for 14 performers, 1989 Meridiana for orchestra, 1989–90

1990s Spazio – Articolazione for 32 performers and amplification systems, 1990 Nell'alto dei giorni immobili for 6 performers, 1990 Natura morta con fiamme for string quartet and electronics, 1991 La Lune et les eaux for 2 guitars, 1991 La sabbia del tempo for 6 performers, 1991 Mediterraneo – I. Les idoles du soleil for ensemble, 1992 Mediterraneo – II. L'azur des déserts for voice and 14 instruments, 1992–93 Your time is over for cello and ensemble, 1993 Golfi d'ombra for solo percussion, 1993 Acid Dreams and Spanish Queens for ensemble, 1994 Seascape for contrabass recorder, 1994 EnTrance for soprano, ensemble and electronics, 1995 Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero. Prima domenica for 4 instruments, 1995–96 Cupio Dissolvi for 14 performers, 1996 The Nameless City for strings and bells ad libitum, 1997 Lost for voice and 15 instruments, 1997 Music for László Moholy-Nagy's film Ein Lichtspiel, schwarz-weiss-grau for recorder, double bass, guitar, percussion and piano, 1997 Professor Bad Trip: Lesson I for 8 performers and electronics, 1998 Professor Bad Trip: Lesson II for ensemble, 1998–99 The Poppy in the Cloud for choir and ensemble, 1999

2000s Professor Bad Trip: Lesson III for ensemble, 2000 Blood on the Floor, Painting 1986 for ensemble, 2000 Domeniche alla periferia dell'impero. Seconda domenica: hommage à Gérard Grisey for 4 instruments, 2000 Flowing down too slow for string orchestra, percussion and bells, 2001 Amok Koma for ensemble and electronics, 2001 Chorus for percussionists, 2001 Trash TV Trance for electric guitar, 2002 An Index of Metals, video opera for soprano, ensemble, multiple projections and electronics (text: Kenka Lekovich, video: Paolo Pachini, Leonardo Romoli), 2003 Dead City Radio Audiodrome for orchestra, 2003 Green, Yellow and Blue for ensemble, 2003

Discography Fausto Romitelli, Cupio dissolvi, Ensemble Phoenix Basel, MGB, 2008, (with works by Jim Grimm, Beat Furrer, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong and Alex Buess), MGB 110. —, Audiodrome [orchestral works]: Dead City Radio. Audiodrome; EnTrance; Flowing Down Too Slow; The Nameless City, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI with Peter Rundel, Stradivarius, 2005, STR33723. —, Paolo Pachini, An Index of Metals, Ictus Ensemble with Georges-Elie Octors (conductor) and Donatienne Michel-Dansac (soprano), Cyprès, 2003. —, Professor Bad Trip, Ictus Ensemble, Cyprès, 2003. —, Trash TV Trance, Giacomo Baldelli, La Bottega Discantica, 2010, BDI231. —, The Nameless City, Musiques Nouvelles, Jean-Paul Dessy, Cyprès, 2012. —, Anamorphosis, Talea Ensemble, Tzadik, 2012. —, Nell'alto dei giorni immobili and remixes, Zagros. Remixes by Diego Capoccitti, Neil Kaczor, Andrea Mancianti and WK569, altremusiche.it / Sincronie, 2012, am002. —, Solare, Elena Casoli, Virginia Arancio, and Teresa Hackel, Stradivarius, 2019, STR37099.