Aladino Di Martino

[Roy Bland]

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Aladino Di Martino was born in a small village in Molise, San Pietro Avellana, in 1903 and was consecrated in Naples as the last of the greatest musical composers of the 20th century. We remember him through the words of one of his students, Riccardo Muti, as a great composer, excellent teacher and man of infinite goodness. An acquired son of the South who represented and gave so much to the school of Neapolitan music and to his way of "making" music.
Retracing the most important phases of his life, his love for music came very soon when at the age of ten, together with his father Luigi, he began to play the trumpet in the small band of the town and then became second trumpet in the musical ensemble of Castelnuovo della Daunia directed by maestro Giuseppe Luzzi. Perhaps the real protagonist is the young composer's father who, after introducing him to the first notes, took him to Naples to enroll him in the musical high school at the Giuseppe Verdi boarding school and subsequently to obtain his diploma at the well-known conservatory of San Pietro a Majella. And from here his great career began not only as a composer, but he is remembered as a great master who, despite austerity, brought his students closer to composition by daring and making them dare that freedom that is inherent in every musical harmony.

Riccardo-Muti

"They took me to Di Martino. From the man who was considered in those years the greatest custodian of the rules of Harmony. Harmony that had such a large part in the firm temper of a Neapolitan musical school carved into history through the names of Camillo De Nardis, Gennaro Napoli and up, up, the composers of our wonderful eighteenth century." Riccardo Muti


His teaching career goes from North to South. He will teach at the conservatories of Reggio Calabria, Avellino, Bologna and Bari, an appointment for teaching Composition at the Milan Conservatory and at the "S. Cecilia" of Rome. Between the thirties and sixties he became a composition teacher at the "U.Giordano" musical high school in Foggia, later becoming its director and transforming it, thanks to his gentle and strong determination, into a conservatory. From 1958 to 1979 professor of advanced composition at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella.

Martino's Aladdin

He was truly an important man, no one can deny it, but the pinnacle of his greatness was his humility. Let's learn from him how to be truly great, first of all in the soul, which is what matters most at the end of life. Maria Teresa Di Lorenzo

Her main compositions were performed at the San Carlo theater, at the Rai Auditorium and in 1980 she received the honor of Commander of Merit of the Italian Republic from the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini. She died in 1989 in her Irpinia.

In his honour, this year the "Aladino Di Martino" high school for music and dance was inaugurated in Portici which, for the study of typical high school subjects such as Italian, foreign languages, mathematics, natural sciences, history of art and other humanistic disciplines , supports the theoretical and technical-practical learning of music and dance based on the individual's choice. (http://www.liceomusicalecoreuticodimartino.com)

His most important works:

– THE LAVERS Tragicomedy in one act, 1928, unpublished

– OP.1 for orchestra, OP.2 for piano: SCHERZO, Simeoli, 1929

– LA LOCANDIERA Overture Naples, Teatro San Carlo 18 May 1958

– BALLAD for mixed choir, soprano, rec. voice, Naples Associazione Scarlatti orchestra – Rai 9 April 1960

– IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT Cantata for two sopranos, choir, orch. Naples, San Carlo Theater 28 October 1969

– THE DEVIL IN THE VILLAGE Ballet Naples, Teatro San Carlo 18 December 1974

– THE WOLF HUNT Naples, Teatro San Carlo, 22 May 1979

– DIVERTAMENTO for flute and string orchestra dedicated to Giorgio Zagnoni

– OUVERTURE FOR AN OPERA BUFFA dedicated to Franco Caracciolo Naples, Rai Auditorium 5 November 1982

– CAPRICCIO FOR CLARINET AND STRINGS Naples, Rai Auditorium 1 December 1988

– THE SEVEN COTENELLE comic opera by G.B. Basile [1985, unpublished]

– For voice and piano:
La Primavére (1929)
The leaves of Santamaria (1936), words by Cesare De Titta Ninna nanna village (Foggia 1941)
Two poems based on texts by Stefan George (1953)
My little horse, from Bazar 48 by Lucio De Palma [1956]
The Hermitage, dedicated to and based on a text by Mariapia Cinelli (1989)

[Symphonic Addict]

Hopefully his music is as cool as his name.

[Roy Bland]

Hopefully his music is as cool as his name.

It's quite long but i publish IMHO it's better analysis of his work

from page 125 to 157
https://www.conservatoriofoggia.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/I-Quaderni-del-Conservatorio-n.7-pag-sing.pdf

[Symphonic Addict]

It's quite long but i publish IMHO it's better analysis of his work

from page 125 to 157
https://www.conservatoriofoggia.it/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/I-Quaderni-del-Conservatorio-n.7-pag-sing.pdf

Thanks for the info.