Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi (born 9 March 1937 in Cirié, Piedmont) is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli. In 2005 he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Selected operas
Blimunda (Teatro Lirico, Milan, May 1990)
Divara – Wasser und Blut (Münster, October 1993)
Isabella (Pesaro, August 1996)
Rinaldo & C. (Catania, October 1997)
Tat'jana (Teatro alla Scala Milan, October 2000)
Sen'ja (Münster, March 2003)
Il dissoluto assolto (Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 2005)
Giocasta (Vicenza, August 2008)

Chamber music
 Ricordando te, lontano (1963) for soprano and piano, G. Ungaretti, A. Bertolucci e S. Aleramo
 Stereofonie x 4 (1967) for flute, cello, organo e percussion
 Actus I (1975) for ten wind instruments
 Actus II (1976) for viola and piano
 Intermedi e Canzoni (1986) for solo trombone
 Chiardiluna (1987) flute flauto and guitar
 ...promenade (1989) for flute, clarinet, violin and cello
 animi motus (1994) for string quartet and electronics
 ... ça ira! (1996) piano concert studio
 a 'nsunnari... (1998) for soprano, flute, clarinet, guitar, violin and cello
 Syncopations (2006) for solo violin, a compulsory piece for the Paganini Award
 "Tang'Jok-Her" (2008) for viola alone. dedicated to Anna Serova
 Redobles y Consonancias (2018) for La Soñada (11 strings guitar) dedicated to Christian Lavernier (2018)

Notes and references

Sources
Azio Corghi page at Ricordi
Corghi, Azio and Bramani, Lidia, Composizione musicale: colloquio con Azio Corghi, Volume 88 of Enciclopedia d'orientamento, Editoriale Jaca Book, 1995. 
Fearn, Raymond, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ny8BKzUv2Z0C&pg=PA242&dq=%22Corghi,+Azio%22&as_brr=3&cd=3#v=onepage&q=%22Corghi%2C%20Azio%22&f=false Italian Opera Since 1945], Routledge, 1998, p. 42 and passim. 
Naxos Records, Biography: Corghi, Azio
Presidenza della Repubblica Italiana, Corghi Maestro Azio, Grande Ufficiale Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana

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