About the Music

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The 3 Miniatures for flute and clarinet are similar to Stravinsky's small pieces for piano. The first, a Prelude based on diminished intervals and 7ths, is both meditative and full of dramatic tension. The second is an Allegretto which is based on the form of the Rondo mixed with structures of dances. Finally we have an invenzione a due voci which means "inventio" in two parts (or voices) that is based on the Bachian polyphony mixed with elements of modernity. The term "miniature" initially referred to middle ages paintings on manuscripts, later it was used to indicate also brief compositions in aphoristic style with a small structure as the general meaning of "musical sketch."

Duo score: 10 pages. Parts: 4 pages each.

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About the Composer

Luigi Rago (1987) is a composer with irregular studies trained at the Salerno State Conservatory of Music “G. Martucci” where after the four-year basic study in composition he obtained the lower completion of composition for the ten-year diploma of the old system. He has always been interested in classical music as well as music applied to images, in commercial as well as academic, in folk music from the Cilento area as well as in the Sacred. DEGREE (three-year academic diploma of 1st level in traditional composition) Conservatory of Salerno (2019). In 2014 one of his compositions for solo flute was awarded at the XIV national composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples (audience award – Franco Caracciolo). He published a reconstruction for violin and orchestra of Bach’s concerto in D minor (Photocity Ed.); a transcription for four transverse flutes of a string quartet by Angelo Maria Benincori in collaboration with Maestro Mauro Scappini (ED. EUFONIA BRESCIA). In 2016 he won the audience prize at the composition competition organized by the Evangelical Lutheran Community of Naples with the composition “Capriccio” for solo violin. - He published abroad with Alea Publishing (USA) [2020]. - Second academic title: (two-year II level course) in instrumentation for wind orchestra with 109/110 at the Conservatory of Salerno (2024). He published a concert for clarinet and band with MULPH publisher.