Italian polymath Alberto Savinio (1891-1952) left a large body of work in painting, music and literature which is highly regarded at home but little known in the English-speaking world, in spite of a few translations and exhibitions. After studying piano in Athens and composition with Max Reger in Berlin, Savinio seemed destined to a career in music. His early compositions seem to have made quite the impression in Paris avantgarde circles.
condition (record/cover): M/M (still sealed) Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire…
condition (record/cover): NM/EX- Gateford sleeve. Includes 16-page LP-size book. Alberto Savinio (1891-1952), born Andrea Francesco Alberto de Chirico, was the polymorphous younger brother of Giorgio de Chirico – painter, writer, musician, composer, and co-founder of the Scuola Metafisica. This rare Cramps/Multhipla LP (1978) documents the 1976 Milan realization of Les chants de la mi-mort (Songs of the Half-Death), Savinio's 1914 avant-garde operetta originally staged in Apollinaire's Les Soiré…
Alberto Savinio - The Island Man presents the proceedings of the homage organized by NoMus at Milan’s Museo del Novecento from January 17 to May 15, 2017. The event (consisting of an exhibition, seminars, concerts, listening and film sessions) was dedicated to Alberto Savinio (brother of the famous painter Giorgio de Chirico), one of the most original and versatile talents of the Twentieth Century: writer, artist, playwriter, musician, set designer, yet also author of radioplays, sketches for th…
Alberto Savinio was a very particular figure of poet, writer, musician, painter of primarily surreal subjects. His dramatic poem, "Les Chants de la Mi-Mort", played in Paris in 1914, seems to prefigure the mannequins that appear in so many of De Chirico's works: "voiceless men, without eyes or faces".
Original copy of this awesome double album by visionary futurist composer Alberto Savinio, issued in 1978 by Multhipla label. A very rare item, original and in new codition, for those into avant garde artists editions, fluxus related, broken music ecc.