Italian composer noted for delicate, whisper-like sonorities, an interest in silence and sparse theatrical works. His music often requires concentrated, active listening.

Born 1947 in Palermo, Italy; internationally performed contemporary composer known for operas, chamber music and experimental use of timbre and silence.

Reviews emphasize Sciarrino's fascination with silence and fragile, whisper-like sounds. His music is described as demanding active listening and often theatrical. The reception ranges from admiring praise to notes of difficulty for casual listeners.

For:Listeners of contemporary classical music, students, performers, and fans of experimental musical theatre.

 It is not the dark that scares us, it is what sleeps within the darkness that frightens us, and that is why we seek the light.

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 It is from the silence that sound is created and from the sound that disappears enveloped by silence that the "Studies for the Intonation of the Sea" originate and develop, a composition essentially based on silences and whispers, on barely perceptible carpets of sounds, on sudden and material clusters, and, above all, on an unexpected and overflowing cantability filled with emotion.

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 The most internationally known and performed living Italian composer: Salvatore Sciarrino is the author of music made of delicate and fragile sounds, sometimes just hinted at, constantly struggling to emerge from silence.

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