Angelo Gilardino is an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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, guitarist

Classical guitar

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 and musicologist

Musicology

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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

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

 Conservatory in Alessandria

Alessandria

-Monuments:* The Citadel * The church of Santa Maria di Castello * The church of Santa Maria del Carmine * Palazzo Ghilini * Università del Piemonte Orientale-Museums:* The Marengo Battle Museum...

 from 1981 to 2004. The Conservatory awarded him the Marengo Music Prize in 1998.

Gilardino has composed much music for solo guitar, as well as chamber music

Chamber music

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 and concerto

Concerto

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s. His solo works include five volumes of Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza (1981-1988), two numbered sonatas (1985, 1986) as well as several titled sonatas and sonatinas, two sets of variations

Variation (music)

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 (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

Mandolin

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 and accordion

Accordion

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), and several duets (for guitar with bassoon

Bassoon

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, cello

Cello

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, violin

Violin

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 and vibraphone

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).

From 1967 to 2006, Gilardino supervised the publication of hundreds of new guitar works by Edizioni Musicali Bèrben. He has also discovered the Variazioni by Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi

Ottorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...

 and several works written for the guitarist Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia

Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquis of Salobreña , known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain...

 by Cyril Scott

Cyril Scott

Cyril Meir Scott was an English composer, writer, and poet.-Biography:Scott was born in Oxton, England to a shipper and scholar of Greek and Hebrew, and Mary Scott , an amateur pianist. He showed a talent for music from an early age and was sent to the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany to...

, Pierre de Bréville

Pierre de Bréville

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, Lennox Berkeley

Lennox Berkeley

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 and many others. He was artistic director of the Andrés Segovia Foundation of Linares from 1997 to 2005.

Quotes

• "I am not a good interpreter of my own music - I never played it and I avoid giving lessons with my music on the stand. " - rec.music.classical.guitar (Jan 23 2003)
• "I have no connection with my pieces, except when I am composing them. Since then, especially when published, they belong to everybody, and I am no longer especially fond of a piece or of another. I feel insignificant and unimportant in respect of the music I write. I have to add - to be quite honest - that when teaching I do not like to deal with my own music. [...] when it happens I have to teach a piece of my own, I feel rather uncertain about what to say." - Interview with Angelo Gilardino
• "Actually, since 1981 to March of this year I was active as a professor in a conservatory and - even without giving concerts - I followed learning a lot about guitar, due mainly to the excellence of students who have cooperated with me. But, I confirm, you are right, I am no technician at all - my work with players has developed in the area of interpretation. I have taught people who could play much better than I did even when I was a concert player." rec.music.classical.guitar (Aug 31 2004)

Solo guitar

• Canzone Notturna (1968)
• Estrellas para Estarellas
  Gabriel Estarellas
  Gabriel Estarellas Sabater is a Spanish guitarist.In 2004, Estarellas received the Trujamán Award in recognition of his accomplishments. He is Professor of Guitar at the Real Conservatorio Superior de Música de Madrid and Honorary Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín de Arequipa,...
  
  (1970)
• Abreuana (1971)
• Araucaria (1971)
• Appaloosa (1972)
• Luceat (1972)
• Trepidazioni per Thebit (1972)
• Ocram (1973)
• Tenebrae factae sunt (1973)
• Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza (1981-1988)
• Sonata No. 1 (Omaggio ad Antonio Fontanesi) (1985)
• Sonata No. 2 (Hivern florit) (1986)
• Variazioni sulla Follìa (1989)
• Musica per l'angelo della Melancholìa (1991)
• Variazioni sulla Fortuna (Nell'antologia Fortune 1993) (1991)
• Winterzeit after Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann
  Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
  
   (2000)
• Colloquio con Andrés Segovia
  Andrés Segovia
  Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquis of Salobreña , known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain...
  
  (2002)
• Sonatine des fleurs et des oiseaux (2002)
• Tríptico de las visiones (2002)
• Catskill Pond (2003)
• La casa del faro (2003)
• Sonata Mediterranea (2004)
• Sonata del Guadalquivir (2004)
• Annunciazione (Omaggio al Beato Angelico) (2004)
• Ikonostas (Omaggio a Pavel Florenskij
  Pavel Florensky
  Pavel Alexandrovich Florensky was a Russian Orthodox theologian, philosopher, mathematician, electrical engineer, inventor and Neomartyr sometimes compared by his followers to Leonardo da Vinci.-Early life:Pavel Aleksandrovich Florensky was born on January 21, 1882, into the family of a railroad...
  
  ) (2004)
• Memory of Antinous (Omaggio a Marguerite Yourcenar
  Marguerite Yourcenar
  Marguerite Yourcenar was a Belgian-born French novelist and essayist. Winner of the Prix Femina and the Erasmus Prize, she was the first woman elected to the Académie française, in 1980, and the seventeenth person to occupy Seat 3.-Biography:Yourcenar was born Marguerite Antoinette Jeanne Marie...
  
  ) (2004)
• A Quiet Song - To the memory of John W. Duarte
  John W. Duarte
  John William Duarte was a British composer, guitarist and writer.Duarte was born in Sheffield, England, but lived in Manchester from the age of 6...
  
  (2005)
• Cantico di Gubbio (2007)
• Sonata di Lagonegro (2008)
• Winter Tales (2008; for Russian 7-string guitar)

Guitar and guitar ensemble

• Concerto d'estate for guitar and guitar quartet (1992)
• Concierto de Córdoba for guitar and guitar quartet (1993)
• Poema d'inverno for guitar and guitar duo (1994)
• Concerto d'autunno for guitar and small guitar orchestra (1994-1995)
• Feste lontane for four guitars (2007)
• Sonetti giuliani for four guitars (2008)

Guitar and orchestra

• Leçons de Ténèbres - concerto for guitar and chamber orchestra (1996)
• Fiori di novembre - concerto for mandolin, guitar and chamber orchestra (1997)
• Concerto Italiano for four guitars and orchestra (1998)
• La casa delle ombre - concerto for flute, guitar and strings (1999)
• Liederkonzert for two guitars and chamber orchestra (2000)
• En las tierras altas - concerto for accordion, guitar and strings (2001)
• Star of the Morning for guitar, cello and orchestra (2004)
• Concerto-Serenata for bass clarinet, guitar and strings (2006)
• Concerto di Novgorod for Russian seven-string guitar and orchestra (2006)
• Concerto di Oliena for guitar and orchestra (2007)

Chamber music

• Preghiere per gli innocenti for voice and guitar (1997)
• Canzoni dimenticate (1999)
• Sonatina-Lied No. 1 for bassoon and guitar (1999)
• Sonatina-Lied No. 2 for violin and guitar (2000)
• Fantasia concertante sul Gran Solo op. 14 di Sor for violin, viola, cello and guitar (2000)
• Retrato de Andrés Segovia for string orchestra (2001)
• Sonata Romantica (Homage to Franz Schubert) for cello and guitar: an elaboration of the piece of the same name by Manuel M. Ponce for solo guitar (2002)
• Retrato de Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...
  
  for chamber orchestra with guitar (2004)
• Partita for vibraphone and guitar (2005)
• Sonatina-Lied No. 3 for flute and guitar (2005)
• Iberia (da Albéniz
  Isaac Albéniz
  Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual was a Spanish Catalan pianist and composer best known for his piano works based on folk music idioms .-Life:Born in Camprodon, province of Girona, to Ángel Albéniz and his wife Dolors Pascual, Albéniz...
  
   e Tárrega
  Francisco Tárrega
  Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...
  
  ) for flute, viola and guitar (2006)
• Sonatina-Lied No. 4 for mandolin and guitar (2006)
• Quartetto "I castelli d'acqua" for two mandolins, mandola and guitar (2006)
• Sonatina-Lied No. 5 for oboe and guitar (2006)
• Quintetto di Lucedio for guitar and string quartet (2008)
• Trio - Fiori del deserto for flute, viola and guitar (2009)

Gilardino as performer

LP:

• Series of Contemporary Guitar Music - Angelo Gilardino plays Haug, Wissmer, Duarte, Tansman, Berkeley
• La Chitarra Nel Secolo XX - Vol. I, Compositori Italiani (Rosetta, Chailly, Maghini, Bettinelli, Mosso)

Gilardino's compositions played by others

LUIGI ATTADEMO - plays “Variazioni sulla Follìa”
CD “Folías”
Guitart Collection Guit 2026
www.luigiattademo.it

GIANLUCA BARBERO plays
"Studio n. 6 – Soledad - Omaggio a Francisco Goya”
“Studio n. 47 – Le rose sulla neve – In memoriam Eso Peluzzi”
Map – Lr Cd 116

LUIGI BISCALDI and QUARTETTO DI ASTI
plays
“Concerto d’estate” per chitarra sola e quartetto di chitarre
“Concierto de Córdoba” para guitarra solista y cuarteto de guitarras
BERCD 833-2 Bèrben

PIERO BONAGURI
esegue “Colloquio con Andrés Segovia”
“Pocci 2004” Guitar Reference
VP Music Media

Chitarrista MICHAEL BRACKEN
plays “Sonata n. 2 – Hivern Florit”
“Good News”
Atma Disques

TRIO CITHAROEDIA
plays
“Poema d’inverno” per tre chitarre
“Ferenc Farkas, Angelo Gilardino
Complete works for Guitar Trio”
NIC 1051 - Guitart Collection

ANGELO COLONE
plays
“Studio n. 18 – Omaggio a de Falla”
“Sintesi”
Map – Lr Cd 087

ANGELO COLONE
esegue
plays
“Tema con variazioni (Omaggio a Fernando Sor)”
“Già la pioggia è con noi (Omaggio a Salvatore Quasimodo)”
“Sacrificio” (Omaggio ad Agustin Barrios Mangoré)
“Concerto per chitarra e orchestra da camera – Leçons de Ténèbres”
“Jondo (Omaggio a Joaquin Turina)
“Soledad (Omaggio a Francisco Goya)
“Paesaggio lucano (Omaggio al pittore Mauro Masi)”
CD “Angelo Angelo”
www.angelocolone.it

MARCO DE SANTI
plays
“Quattro Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza”
“Ocram”
EMI I.071

WILLIAM FEASLEY
plays
“Soledad (Omaggio a Francisco Goya)”
“Echoes of Goya”
SONORA SO22587CD

FABIO FEDERICO
plays
“Elegia di marzo”
“Mediterranea”
“Alleluia”
“El rosario”
“Jondo”
CD “Estudios”
Etnoworld Classical
www.fabiofederico.com

REZA GANJAVI
plays “Canzoni Dimenticate”
per varie formazioni a duo con chitarra
CD “In Friendship”

TILMAN HOPPSTOCK
plays
“Etude n. 3”
CD “The 20th Century Guitar”
Signum SigX90-00

LUIGI GIFFI
plays
“Elegia di marzo”
“Sacrificio”
“Quattuor in Musica”

MARTHA MASTERS
plays
“Colloquio con Andrés Segovia”
CD “Viaggio in Italia”
GSP1031CD

LUCIO MATARAZZO
plays “Quattro Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza”
CD "LM & friends"
CD GUITART COLLECTION

ALBERTO MESIRCA
plays
“Annunciazione – Omaggio al Beato Angelico”
“Ikonostas – Omaggio a Pavel Florenskij
“Ikonostas”
Map – Lr Cd 112

MICHAEL PARTINGTON
plays
“Studio n. 12 (Omaggio a Prokofiev)”
“20th Century Guitar”
Roserecord Rose 1004CD

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Sonata n. 2 - Hivern Florit”
“Embarquement pour Cithère”
“Omaggio a Sergej Prokof’ev”
“Les arbres rouges”
Seicorde 188IT
www.cristianoporqueddu.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Studies 1-12”
CD Trascendentia Vol.I
Seicorde 188IT
www.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Studies 13-24”
Trascendentia Vol.II
Seicorde 188IT
www.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Studies 25-36”
Trascendentia Vol.III
Seicorde 188IT
www.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Studies 37-48”
Trascendentia Vol IV
Seicorde SNR019
www.trascendentia.com

CRISTIANO PORQUEDDU
plays
“Studies 49-60”
Trascendentia Vol V
www.trascendentia.com

MARCELLO RIVELLI
plays
“Sonata n. 2 - Hivern Florit”
Guitart Collection Guit 2030

GIANLUCA SABBADIN
plays
“Studio n. 47 – Le rose sulla neve”
“Studio n, 18 – El rosario”
“Studio n. 4 – Elegia di marzo”
CD "Recital per chitarra sola"

GIULIO TAMPALINI
plays
“Works for Guitar 2002-2004”
www.giuliotampalini.it

Sources

• Annala, Hannu and Mätlik, Heiki, "Gilardino, Angelo", Handbook of Guitar and Lute Composers, Mel Bay Publications, 2008, p. 77. ISBN 0786658444
• Colonna, Maurizio, "Gilardino, Angelo" in Chitarristi-compositori del XX secolo: le idee e le loro conseguenze, F. Muzzio, 1990, p. 315. ISBN 8870215377
• Guitar Foundation of America, Artistic Achievement Award (2009): Angelo Gilardino

External links

• Angelo Gilardino Website Angelo Gilardino official website
• AG Blog Angelo Gilardino official blog

Interviews

• Interview with Angelo Gilardino (by Larry Cooperman)
• Interview (by Isolde Schaupp)

Recordings

• LP recordings / Liner Notes (Oviatt Library Digital Collections)