Biography

Lombardi studied composition initially with Armando Renzi and Roberto Lupi, later enrolling at the Pesaro Conservatory

Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini"

The Conservatorio Statale di Musica "Gioachino Rossini" is a music conservatory in Pesaro, Italy. Founded in 1869 with a legacy from the composer Gioachino Rossini, the conservatory officially opened in 1882 with 67 students and was then known as the Liceo musicale Rossini...

 where he studied with Boris Porena

Boris Porena

Boris Porena is an Italian thinker, music composer and didactical expert. He is married to Paola Bučan, a famous Croatian cellist and teacher, who is a tenured professor at the Perugia Conservatory....

, receiving his diploma in 1970. He then studied musicology at the University of Rome, graduating with a thesis on Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler

Hanns Eisler was an Austrian composer.-Family background:Eisler was born in Leipzig where his Jewish father, Rudolf Eisler, was a professor of philosophy...

. From 1968 to 1972 he lived in Cologne

Cologne

Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

 where he studied with Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Another critic calls him "one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music"...

, Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur

Henri Pousseur was a Belgian composer.-Biography:Pousseur studied at the Academies of Music in Liège and in Brussels from 1947 to 1953. He was closely associated with Pierre Froidebise and André Souris...

, Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel

Mauricio Kagel was a German-Argentine composer. He was notable for his interest in developing the theatrical side of musical performance .-Biography:...

, Dieter Schnebel

Dieter Schnebel

Dieter Schnebel is a composer. From 1976 until his retirement in 1995, Schnebel served as professor of experimental music at the Berlin Hochschule der Künste.-Career:...

, and Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Anthony Rzewski is an American composer and virtuoso pianist.- Biography :Rzewski began playing piano at age 5. He attended Phillips Academy, Harvard and Princeton, where his teachers included Randall Thompson, Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Milton Babbitt...

 at the Cologne Courses for New Music, and with Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Bernd Alois Zimmermann was a post-WWII West German composer. He is perhaps best known for his opera Die Soldaten which is regarded as one of the most important operas of the 20th century...

 at the Hochschule für Musik

Hochschule für Musik Köln

The Cologne University of Music is a music college in Cologne, and Germany's largest academy of music.-History:The academy was founded by Ferdinand Hiller in 1850 as Conservatorium der Musik in Coeln...

. He also studied for a time in Berlin

Berlin

Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

 with Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau

Paul Dessau was a German composer and conductor.- Biography :Dessau was born in Hamburg into a musical family...

 in 1973 at the Akademie der Künste

Akademie der Künste

The Akademie der Künste, Berlin is an arts institution in Berlin, Germany. It was founded in 1696 by Elector Frederick III of Brandenburg as the Prussian Academy of Arts, an academic institution where members could meet and discuss and share ideas...

.

Works

Operas and other stage works

• Faust: "Un travestimento" (libretto by the composer, after E. Sanguineti
  Edoardo Sanguineti
  Edoardo Sanguineti was an Italian writer who was born in Genoa.-Biography:During the 1960s he was a leader of the neo avant-garde Gruppo 63 movement, founded in 1963 at Solunto....
  
  ) (1986–90)
• Prospero (after William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare
  William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
  
  's play The Tempest)

Orchestra

• Symphony No.1 (1974–75)
• Variazioni (1977)
• Symphony No.2 (1981)
• Framework, for 2 pianos and orchestra (1982–83)
• La Notte di S. Silvestro (1983-84)
• Concerto for Viola and Orchestra (1995)

Vocal Works

• Alle fronde dei Salici, for 12 voices (to texts by Salvatore Quasimodo
  Salvatore Quasimodo
  Salvatore Quasimodo was an Italian author and poet. In 1959 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his lyrical poetry, which with classical fire expresses the tragic experience of life in our own times". Along with Giuseppe Ungaretti and Eugenio Montale, he is one of the foremost Italian poets...
  
  , 1977)
• Tui-Gesänge, for soprano and 5 instruments (flute, clarinet, piano, violin and cello; to texts by Albrecht Betz,1977)
• Hasta que Caigan las Puertas del Odio, for 16 voices (to texts by Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda
  Pablo Neruda was the pen name and, later, legal name of the Chilean poet, diplomat and politician Neftalí Ricardo Reyes Basoalto. He chose his pen name after Czech poet Jan Neruda....
  
  , 1977)
• E subito riprende il viaggio, for 5 voices (to texts by Ungaretti
  Giuseppe Ungaretti
  Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo , he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned...
  
  , 1979-80)
• Majakowski, cantata for bass, mixed choir and 7 instruments (to texts by Mayakovsky
  Vladimir Mayakovsky
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was a Russian and Soviet poet and playwright, among the foremost representatives of early-20th century Russian Futurism.- Early life :...
  
  , 1979-­80)
• Mythenasche, for soprano, baritone, mixed choir and chamber orchestra (to texts by A. Betz, 1981)

Chamber music

• Proporzioni, for 4 trombones (1968–69)
• Non requiescat, musica in memoria di Hanns Eisler, for chamber orchestra (1973)
• Gespräch über Bäume, for eight instrumentalists (1976)
• Klavierduo, for 2 pianos (1978–89)
• Einklang, for oboe, cor anglais, horn, trombone, percussion, piano, viola, cello, and double-bass (1980)
• Winterblumen, for flute and harp (1982)
• Sisyphos, for flute, clarinet, mandoline, guitar, marimba, harp, viola, and double-bass (1984)
• Sisyphos II, for 14 instruments (1984)
• Sisifo felice, for eight instrumentalists (1985)
• Ai piedi del faro, for double-bass and eight instrumentalists (1986)
• String Quartet No.1 ("Quartett vom armen Mann", 1991–92)
• Bagatelles sans et avec tonalité, for piano four-hands (1992)
• Jahreswechsel, for chamber ensemble (1993–94)
• Addii, for violin, cello, and piano (1995–96)
• Infra, for 11 instrumentalists (1997)
• Geburtstagsgruß für Thomas und Bernhard, for violin and viola (2003)

Solo instrument

• Albumblätter, for piano (1967–68)
• Wiederkehr, for piano (1971)
• Variazioni su "Avanti popolo alla riscossa", for piano (1977)
• Essay 2, for bass clarinet (1979)
• Schattenspiel, for bass flute (1984)
• A chi fa notte il giorno, for double-bass (1993)
• Rnnili, for viola solo (1995)
• Bab, for viola solo (2003)

Sources

• Ramazzotti, Marinella (2002). "Lombardi, Luca". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
• Lombardi, Luca (1982). "Construction of Freedom". Perspectives of New Music
  Perspectives of New Music
  Perspectives of New Music is a peer-reviewed, academic journal specializing in music theory and analysis. It was founded in 1962 by Arthur Berger and Benjamin Boretz , making it the second-oldest music-theory journal now published in the United States .Perspectives was a Princeton-based journal...
  
  , Vol. 22, No. 1/2 (Autumn, 1983 - Summer, 1984), pp. 253-264. Translated by Franco Betti