Background
PETRASSI, Goffredo was born on July 16, 1904 in Zagarolo. Son of Eliseo Petrassi and Erminia Calzoletti.
PETRASSI, Goffredo was born on July 16, 1904 in Zagarolo. Son of Eliseo Petrassi and Erminia Calzoletti.
Conservatorio South. Cecilia, Rome.
Follia di Orlando 1943, Ritratto di don Chisciotte 1945, II Cordovano 1948, Morte dell’Aria 1950; choral works: Salmo IX 1936, Magnificat 1940, Coro di Morti 1941, Noehe Oscura 1951, Mottetti 1965; voice and orchestra Quattro Inni Sacre 1942; chamber music: Serenata 1958, Trio 1959, Suoni Nottumi 1959, Propos d’Alain 1960, Concerto Flauto 1960, Seconda Serenata-Trio 1962, Settimo Concerto 1964, Estri 1966-1967, Beatitudines 1968, Ottetto di Ottori 1968, Souffle 1969, Ottavo Concerto 1970-1972, Elogio 1971, Nunc 1971, Ala 1972, Orationes Christi 1975, Alias 1977, Grand Septuor 1978, Violasola 1978, Flou 1980, Romanzetta 1980, Poema 1977-1980, Sestina d’Autunno 1981-1982, Laudes Creaturarum 1982.He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century. At the age of 15 he began to work at a music shop to supply his family"s financial needs, and became fascinated by music In 1928, he entered the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome to study organ and composition.
In 1934, composer Alfredo Casella conducted Petrassi"s Partita for orchestra at the ISCM festival in Amsterdam.
Later, Petrassi became musical director of the opera house Louisiana Fenice, and from 1959 taught composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and at the Salzburg Mozarteum. Petrassi had many famous students, including Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi, Cornelius Cardew, Ennio Morricone, Karl Korte, Boris Porena, Norma Beecroft, Mario Bertoncini, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Eric Salzman, Kenneth Leighton, Peter Maxwell Davies, Michael Dellaira, Armando Santiago, and Richard Teitelbaum.
Petrassi died in Rome at the age of 98.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium.
Married Rosetta Acerbi in 1962.