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- Frank Abbinanti (b. 1949), American composer; Una forza di luce (oratorio for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone soloists and orchestra, texts based on Dante, Leopardi and Pasolini)
- Luna Alcalay, Austrian composer; Una Strofa di Dante (for chorus and orchestra)
- Kristi Allik & Robert Mulder
- Electronic Purgatory: A digital music-theatre composition for performers, interactive theatre, and electroacoustic music (started in the fall of 1989 and completed in December 1991)
- Ancient, Norwegian/American Heavy Metal Band; album The Cainian Chronicle (1996, with part 5 "At The Infernal Portal (Canto III)")
- Sven-Erik Bäck (1919-1994), Swedish composer; Musik till Dantes Divina commedia, I: Inferno (1990, for two voices and ensemble)
- Edgar Bainton (1870-1956), British composer; The Transfiguration of Dante (op. 18, 1908, choral work)
- Granville Bantock (1868-1946), British composer; Dante and Beatrice (Poem for orchestra, 1901, revised 1910)
- Françoys Bayle (b. 1932, Madagascar), French composer; Purgatoire & Le Paradis Terrestre, forming, together with Bernard Parmegiani's Enfer, La Divine Comédie d'apres Dante (1973, choreography by Vittorio Biagi 1976)
- Antonio Bibalo (b. 1922); Cantico for Mezzo Soprano and Prepared Tape (Italian text from Dante, Inferno 5; recording: [Norway]: Aurora, 1983, ACD 4988)
- Björn Bjurling (b. 1966), Swedish composer; Si traviato è'l folle mi' desio (1995, for female choir)
- Gavin Bryars (b. 1943), British composer; Incipit Vita Nuova (for alto voice, violin, viola, and violoncello, Latin text based on Dante and Pico della Mirandola)
- Niccolò Castiglioni (1932-1996), Italian composer; Sinfonia in C (1968-69, with texts by Bob Johnson, Shakespeare, and Dante)
- Jacques Charpentier (b. 1933); Symphonie no 6 pour orchestre et orgue: déjà le soleil touchait à l'horizon (score: Paris: Leduc, c1982, 64 pp.; recording: Erato [France], 1983, live recording of a concert in June 1980, Copenhague, with Marie-Claire Alain, Danmarks Radiosymfoniorkester, cond. Tamás Vetö)
- Lorenzo Da Ponte (1749-1838), Italian librettist
- Xavier Darasse (1934-1993); Organum VII: pour orgue, avec voix de soprano ad libitum (with Italian words from Purg. 2, score: Paris: Salabert / S.E.D.I.M., c1991, 25 pp.)
- Peter Maxwell Davies (1934[1942?]-1992), British composer; Songs to words by Dante (1967), 'for baritone & smallish orchestra'
- Gunnar de Frumerie (1908-1987), Swedish composer; Dante (Ung i Firenze) (1977, for voice, piano, and flute); Dante op. 76 (1977, for voice and orchestra)
- David Denniston (b. 1957), American composer; Moto Dante (1994, for synthesized and sampled sounds on tape); Moto Dante (1994, for piano solo)
- Dreams of Sanity, Austrian Metal Rock band; Komödia (1996?)
- Lars Edlund (b. 1922), Swedish composer; Paradiso: tre canti (1995, for mixed choir)
- Torbjörn Engström (b. 1963), Swedish composer; Tra gli stolti (1988, for five voices)
- Kenneth Gaburo; Subito: theater for 4 instruments (1974-76, for voice, trumpet, viola, double-bass, with Italian words from Dante's Inferno; work commissioned by the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress, holograph/typescript La Jolla, Calif.: Lingua Press, c1977, 59 pp., in the Library of Congress, call no. ML30.3c.G3 no. 1); id., Dante's joynte: Lingua I: poems and other theaters, La Jolla, Calif.: Lingua Press, 1976
- Benjamin Godard (1849-1895), French composer; Dante et Beatrice (op. 111)
- Jan Hanus (b. 1915), Czech composer; Labyrinth. Dance meditations on the motifs of Dante's Divine Comedy (op. 98, 1980-82); Three Dantesque Preludes from the ballet Labyrinth for orchestra (op. 98a, 1983)
- James Harthway (b. 1944); The ninth circle (for narrator, dancer, organ, and two percussion players, text taken from Andrea di Tomaso's translation of Dante's Commedia; score, reproduced from holograph: [United States]: J. J. Hartway, c1982, 11 leaves, Library of Congress call no. M1625.H34N5 1982)
- Robert M. Helmschrott (b. 1938), German composer; Entelechiae: Riflessioni su Dante per orchestra (1977)
- Anders Hillborg (b. 1954), Swedish composer; Variations (1982, for two voices and ensemble)
- Dietmar Hippler, German composer; Inferno (1997, for soprano and chamber orchestra, after Dante)
- Anders Hultqvist (b. 1955), Swedish composer; E l'altre stelle (1989, for four voices and orchestra)
- Björn Johansson (1913-1983), Swedisch composer; 2 sonetti dalla Vita nova (1975, for mixed choir a capella)
- Milla Jovovich (b. 1975), Ukrainian pop musician, movie actor and photo model; The Divine Comedy (album, recorded 1994)
- Divine Eyes Projekt: German fan website (with English version), including biographic info, songtexts of The Divine Comedy, guitar tabs of one of the songs (The Alien Song), and electronic postprints of various reviews of The Divine Comedy:
- John McAlley, Rolling Stone Magazine, no. 680, 21 April 1994
- Sam Taylor, Milla's Crossing, The Face Magazine 6 (1994)
- J. Freedom duLac, Milla - Surprising Everyone but Herself, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 1994
- VH1's Inside Music, 12 July 1994
- Michael Snyder, Milla Cuts a 'Divine' Album, San Francisco Chronicle, 2 October 1994
- Mark Kelly (b. 1961), Irish key board player and composer
- Jan Klusak (b. 1934), Czech composer; Five Fragments from the Divine Comedy for Alto and Piano (1963)
- Kokoro Dance, dance company, formed in 1986, based in Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada); Zero to the Power (1989, inspired by the etchings of Gustav Doré for Dante's Comedy with eight dancers, three taiko drummers, one cellist and a percussionist; music by Robert J. Rosen)
- Hans Koolmees (b. 1959), Dutch composer; Games: voor mezzo-sopraan, 2 slagwerkers en harp (1993, English words from Bram Stoker and Dante Alighieri; score: Amsterdam: Donemus, c1995, 11 pp., Library of Congress call no. M1613.3.K775G3 1995); Lilywhite: voor mezzo-sopraan, koperblazers, slagwerk, harp en strijkorkest (1994, arranged by the composer from three earlier works, English words of the second movement from Bram Stoker and Dante, score reproduced from holograph: Amsterdam: Donemus, c1995, 38 pp., Library of Congress call no. M1613.K825L5 1995)
- Work list from the Donemus Collection via FASO Library (the music library of the Dutch Federation of Amateur Symphony and String Orchestras
- Rainer Kunad (1936-1995), German composer; Pro novo: für gemischten Chor a cappella, conatum 58 (1989, German text by the composer based on Paradiso 1; score: Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1982, 20 pp.)
- Info (Munzinger Archiv, 2 October 1995, extract)
- Rued Langgaard (1893-1952), Danish composer; Flammekamrene (1930-37, BVN 221, sonata/phantasy for piano, after Dante's Inferno XXVI); Dante's "Helvede" (1951, BVN 421, for organ, 'Dante's Inferno')
- Brent Lee (b. 1964), Candadian compser; Quel ch'ella par quando un poco sorride (1989, for female voice, electronics, variable chamber ensemble; text by Dante)
- Ingvar Lidholm (b. 1921), Swedish composer; A riveder le stelle (1971-1973, for mixed choir a capella)
- Franz Liszt (1811-1886); Paralipomènes à la Divina Commedia (1839, sonata for piano solo, 1st version); Prolégomènes à la Divina Commedia (c. 1840, sonata for piano solo, 2nd version); Après une lecture du Dante - Fantasia quasi Sonata (for piano solo, no. 7 from Années de Pèlerinage, 2me année, 1837-1849); Dante (1856, symphony); Dantes Sonett "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta" (1874, for piano solo)
- Ralph Lundsten (b. 1936), Swedish composer; Dante, akta dig foör hajen (electroacoustic music for movie, op. 152, 1978)
- Tod Machover (b. 1953), American composer; Hyperstring Trilogy (1991-1993, revised 1996/97, for hypercello, hyperviola, hyperviolin, and chamber orchestra): I. Begin again again... (premiered 1991, for solo hypercello), II. Song of Penance (premiered 1991, for hyperviola, computer-controlled voice, and 17 instruments), III. Forever and Ever (premiered 1993, for hyperviolin and chamber orchestra)
- Jan Malek (b. 1938), Czech composer; Sei sonetti della "Vita niova" di Dante (1974, for mixed four-part choir
and recitation ad libitum);
- José-Manuel Montañés (b. 1958), Spanish composer; L'Inferno (1991-, current project, tryptich for piano and orchestra)
- Luca Marenzio (155?-1999), Italian composer; Madrigals after Dante, including Così nel mio parlar (after Rime 103 = Rime Petrose IV, tape recording: New York Pro Musica, Library of Congress Music Division concert, 30 October 1965, Library of Congress call no. LWO 4690 and call no. LWO 4704 [edited for broadcast])
- Info
- Address of Conservatorio «Luca Marenzio», (21121 Brescia, Corso Magenta, 44, tel. ++39 +30 3757103, fax 3770337)
- Salvatore Giovanni Martirano (1927-1995), American composer, professor of music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, had been working on a composition for baritone voice (processed through Kyma) and symphony orchestra, based on the ending to Dante's Paradiso
- Loreena McKennitt, Canadian pop singer; album The Book Of Secrets (1997) with a song Dante's prayer
- Anthony Milner (b. 1925), British composer; Symphony no. 2 (for soli, choir and orchestra, uses a Dante quotation in its final section)
- Eduard Frantsovitch Napravnik (1839-1916), Russian composer; Francesca da Rimini (1902, opera)
- Stirling Scott Newberry (b. 1967), American composer; Sketches from Dante: L'amor che move le sole e l'altre stelle
- Arne Nordheim (b. 1931), Norwegian composer; Aurora (for vocal soloist and electronic tape, texts from Dante's Paradiso 33 and Psalm 139; recordings: Arne Nordheim, Wirklicher Wald / Aurora, [Norway] : Aurora / New York: Distributed by Qualiton Imports, 1985; Arne Nordheim, Choral music: selections, [Norway] : Aurora, 1986)
- Info (released by Schirmer, updated 8 July 1996)
- Per Nørgård (b. 1932), Danish composer; Labyrinten (1963, opera in two acts and 22 scenes, Danish libretto by Bent Nørgård, summarized by Schirmer's Opera Catalogue: "Symbolically, the title of this opera is the name of an amusement park booth where the
action takes place. The Labyrinth is meant to be fun but the central character, Eliasson,
the ticket seller, is disgusted by all the frivolity which he applies, in his mind, to life itself.
This attitude prompts the ticket seller's idea for a 'Save the People' plan: namely to build
a model of Dante's Inferno, a papier-maché mountain with an earthly Eden at the top and
Hell at the bottom!")
- Giovanni Pacini (1796-1867), Italian composer; Sinfonia Dante (1863/64)
- Ennio A. Paola; Cantica III, canto XXXIII : Dante beholds the universe (for piano?), Toronto: Berandol, c1981, 2 pp. (Library of Congress call no. M25.P)
- Bernard Parmegiani (b. 1927), French composer; Enfer, forming, together with Françoys Bayle's Purgatoire & Le Paradis Terrestre, La Divine Comédie d'apres Dante (1973, choreography by Vittorio Biagi 1976)
- Elis Pehkonen; Russian requiem (for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra, texts taken from Missa pro defunctis, Dante, Lenin, St. John the Divine, and Boris Pasternak; score: Oxford: Music Dept. / Oxford University Press, 1989, 150 pp.)
- Andre Pluess (with Ben Sussman and John Bourdeaux)
- Info on a Musical based on Dante's Inferno
- Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886), Italian composer; Tanto gentile: sonetto di Dante (recording: A. P., Composizioni vocali e strumentali inedite, Milano: Sipario / Bologna: Distribuzione Bongiovanni, 1986); Bertrando dal Bornio (1858, opera); cf. Licia Sirch, Catalogo tematico delle musiche di Amilcare Ponchielli, Cremona: Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi, 1989 (= Instituta et Monumenta, Serie II: Instituta, Vol. 12)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), Italian composer; Il Trittico (three one-act operas, premiered in New York 1918, conceived of as an analogy to the three 'cantiche' of Dante's Commedia): 1. Il tabarro (libretto by Giuseppe Adami), 2. Suor Angelica (libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, 3. Gianni Schicchi (libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, taking its issue from the Anonimo fiorentino's gloss on Inf. 33,32)
- Sergei Vassilievich Rachmaninov (1873-1943), Russian composer; Francesca da Rimin (op. 25, opera in two scenes, 1905)
- Michael Radulescu (b. 1943), Rumanian composer and organist, teaching in Vienna; Versi / Dante (recording: M. R., Epiphaniai, Freiburg: Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 1993, recorded in Luzern, Jesuitenkirche, 22-25 April 1992)
- John Rea, composer now living in Canada; Canto di Beatrice (1992, for two sopranos and two cellos)
- Robert X. Rodríguez (b. 1946), American composer; Canto (1982, for soprano or tenor and ensemble, text based on Dante and anonymous French author)
- Biographic info released by G. Schirmer, Inc. (updated 29 April 1998)
- Work list released by G. Schirmer, Inc. (updated 25 March 1998)
- Norbert Rosseau (1907-1975), Belgian composer; Tanto gentile (op. 12, for medium voice and piano, after Vita nuova XXVI; score: no. 1 of N. R., Cinque canzoni italiani, Bruxelles: CeBeDeM, c1994, 15 pp.
- Poul Ruders (b. 1949); Sonata no. 1 for piano: Dante sonata ("inspired by two different quotations from Dante Alleghieri's The divine comedy"; score: Copenhagen / New York: W. Hansen / Distribution in the USA: Magnamusic-Baton, c1983, 36 pp.
- Biographic info (released by Schirmer, February 1996, updated 26 November 1997)
- Jean Sibelius (1865-1957), Finnish composer; Symphony no. 2 in D (op. 43, completed 1902)
- Geoff Kuenning, Sibelius: Symphony No. 2: "the major themes were developed during a stay in Italy, and several were originally conceived for a tone poem to be based on Dante's Divine Comedy."
- Dmitriæi Dmitrievich Shostakovich (1906-1975), Russian composer; Suite on verses of Michelangelo Buonarroti (op. 145, for bass and piano; op. 145a, for bass and orchestra, orchestrated by the composer; includes no. 6: Dante, Michelangelo's sonnet on Dante, "Dal ciel discese")
- Skot T. Smallwood, American composer; Cinq chansons (1994, for woodwind quintet, based on texts by Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Arnaut Daniel, Gaucelm Faidit, Giraut de Bornelh and Bertran de Born)
- Patric Stanford; Symphony no. 3: Toward paradise (for chorus and orchestra; score: London: Redcliffe Edition, c1983, 60 pp.)
- Tan Dun (b. 1957); Chinese composer, now living in New York; Marco Polo (opera, 1995, libretto by Paul Griffiths, staging Dante)
- Biographic info, released by G. Schirmer, Inc. (updated 15 July 1998)
- List of works published by G. Schirmer, Inc. and Crossings (updated 19 February 1998)
- Marco Polo to premiere 7 May 1996 at the Munich Biennale, press release by G. Schirmer, Inc., 4 May 1994
- Tan Dun: Marco Polo Arrives (April 1996 Schirmer News)
- Photo of the premiere
- Marco Polo: Cast, Scene, Note, Minimum Instrumentation, Critical Acclaim, by G. Schirmer, Inc. (updated 26 November 1997)
- Marco Polo: Oorspronkelijk muziektheater van Tan Dun, released by Holland Festival, Amsterdam
- Piotr Illiych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), Russian composer; Francesca da Rimini (1876, op. 32, phantasy for orchestra); Manfred (1885, op. 58, symphony in b minor, inspired by Byron's drama and by a scheme that had been suggested by the Russian composer M. A. Balakirev)
- The World of Pyotr Ilych Tchaikovsky, maintained by Gretchen Lamb, includes, among other materials, Concise Calendar (by Daniel Gregory Mason), Comprehensive Calendar (by Edward Garden), Private Life (by Daniel Gregory Mason), Life as a Composer (by Daniel Gregory Mason), Complete work list (taken from The New Oxford Companion to Music), Personalia (a biographic index of persons related to the composer's biography, by Edwrd Garden), and Impressions, Recollections, Obituaries
- Biographic info, partly extracted for The Classical Music Pages from The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music (London: Macmillan), including a work list (by Almut Haas), a short info on Manfred and a colletion of portraits
- Biographic info (by Jos Smeets & David Perkins)
- Dimitri Terzakis, Greek composer; Vier Monologe für mittlere Stimme und Klavier (for medium voice and piano, texts by Sappho, Giorgos Papaefstathiou, Dante, and A. Kalwos; score: Köln : H. Gerig, c1984, 15 pp.
- Francis Thorne; La luce eterna (1974, for soprano and orchestra: a setting of the final stanzas of Dante's Paradiso, Canto XXXIII; score: [New York]: F. Thorne, [1979?], 61 pp.; [United States]: G. Schirmer, Rental Library, c1989, 61 pp.)
- Jacob ter Veldhuis (b. 1951), Dutch composer; Paradiso I (1992, for mixed choir, after Dante); Paradiso II (op. 65, 1994, for baritone and orchestra, based on cantos 30 and 33; score: Amsterdam: Donemus, c1994, 76 pp.); Sempre l'amor (1994, for countertenor, 2 tenors and bass, after Dante); Sempre l'amor II (1995, for mixed choir, after Dante)
- Biographic info (released by Donemus)
Work list (released by Donemus)
Work list from the Donemus Collection via FASO Library (the music library of the Dutch Federation of Amateur Symphony and String Orchestras)
- Joe Venegoni, composer, hammer dulcimer, recording artist
- Info, referring to an evening length dance theater performance, based on Dante's Vita Nuova
- Claude Vivier (1948-1983), Canadian composer; Lettura di Dante (1974, for soprano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, viola, percussion)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901); Ave Maria
- Jan van Vlijmen (b. 1935); Inferno: cantate per tre gruppi vocali e quattro gruppi strumentali (1991-1993, score: Amsterdam: Donemus, c1994, 139 pp.)
- Work list from the Donemus Collection via FASO Library (the music library of the Dutch Federation of Amateur Symphony and String Orchestras)
- William Wallace (1838-1940), Scottish composer; The Passing of Beatrice: Symphonic Poem No 1 (1892)
- Notes by John Purser (Coventry University Music Web Site)
- Peter Wettstein (b. 1939), Swiss composer; Un giro immortale. Totentanz (1994/95, for bariton, two speakers, choir, chamber orchestra, percussion, and pantomime, based on texts by Dante and Ungaretti)
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876-1948), Italian composer; La Vita Nuova (op. 9, premiered 1903, oratorio for soloists, choirs and orchestra)
- Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944), Italian composer; Francesca da Rimini (1914, opera in four acts, libretto based on D'Annunzio)
- Luigi Zaninelli; Dark forest (for symphonic band, based on the first canto of Dante's Inferno; score: Delaware Water Gap, Pa.: Shawnee Press, c1982, 18 pp.)
Last update on 13 September 1998
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