April 3, Birthday of Elisabetta Brusa (b.1954)

Elisabetta BrusaIs an Italian composer, who as a child wrote over 30 pieces for piano before entering the Music Conservatory in Milan. Starting in her twenties, she travelled to London where she was tutored by Peter Maxwell Davies for many years. She received a Fulbright and taught at Tanglewood, where she also studied under Hans Werner Henze. This is how Wikipedia describes her work. If someone can explain it to us, I’d be very grateful: Neo-Tonality and in particular to Neo-Romanticism, but in the original sense of the word, which is nowadays often confusedly assimilated to other ones,” and her harmony as “essentially pandiatonic with panchromatic moments.”

A to Z Challenge

“Belsize” String Quartet, Op.1	Sonata per pianoforte, Op. 6
Simply Largo, for String Orchestra	Marche Funèbre, per Pianoforte (2001)