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Giampaolo Coral (Trieste, 22 January 1944 – Trieste, 17 February 2011) was an Italian composer. ==Biography== Coral began his musical career at age 14 as an organist in his native city of Trieste. After graduating in piano at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice, he began his career as a substitute teacher at the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste (1967–1973) and as a music consultant to the ''Teatro Stabile del Friuli Venezia Giulia'' and ''Veneto Teatro'' (1977–1985). He was also active as a choir director and as a teacher of "choral exercises" at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory of Music in Trieste (1971–2001). From 1982 he was a member of the ''Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori'' the Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE). Giampaolo Coral was essentially self-taught, but his spiritual teachers were Arnold Schönberg and Franco Donatoni, with whom he had a long friendship. He was the Artistic Director of the City of Trieste Music Prize, an international competition of musical composition and a member of the Federation of International Music Competitions of Geneva. In 1987 he founded an association in Trieste (Chromas – the Association of Contemporary Music), where he served as the Artistic Director. The same year, through the Chromas Association, he created the festival entitled ''"Trieste Prima'' – International Encounters with Contemporary Music." From 1995 to 2004 he was Artistic Director of the Music Sector of ''Trieste Contemporanea'' (www.tscont.ts.it). In 1970 he made his debut in Germany, with his first orchestral work, "Requiem for Jan Palach and others"(1969), performed by the ''Stadt- Symphonie Orchester'', Gelsenkirchen and then in 1971 in his hometown, at the Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi, with "Magnificat" for soprano and orchestra that was reprised in 1973, in the ''Grosser Musikvereinssaal'' in Vienna by the ORF Symphony Orchestra and, in 1976, in Milan, by the Orchestra of the Italian State broadcaster RAI. He composed several operas, including the ballet "''Favola – pantomima romantica''" ("Fable – romantic pantomime") (EW Korngold), represented in the 1981–1982 opera season at the ''Teatro Comunale'' Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste, "Il canto del cigno" ("Swan Song") (A. Chekhov), a prizewinner at the "Carl Maria von Weber" International Competition for Chamber Opera put on by the ''Dresdner Musikfestspiele'' and the ''Staatsoper'' Dresden. In 1983 he composed the opera "Mr. Hyde?" (RL Stevenson), performed in 2008 by the Teatro Verdi in Trieste as well as the chamber opera "''Demoni e fantasmi notturni della città di Perla''" ("Demons and Nocturnal Ghosts in the City of Pearl") performed at the Mittelfest in Cividale del Friuli in 1999 and the following year in Zagreb. He wrote four musical theatre shows for radio, one of which was performed, directed by Giorgio Pressburger, at the "''Atelier sur la prise du son dans le théâtre radiophonique''", held in Hilversum by the ''Union Européenne de Radiodiffusion''. Also worthy of note was the production of incidental music (repeated approximately 2000 times) for 25 dramas performed in Italian and foreign theatres (Burgtheater Wien, Festival of Two Worlds Charleston, Narodno Kazalisce Zagreb, Schauspielhaus Graz, Ljubljana Slovensko Narodno Gledalisce, etc.), working with directors such as Franco Enriquez, Francesco Macedonio, Furio Bordon, Sandro Sequi, Paolo Magelli, Gianfranco De Bosio, Giorgio Pressburger and Franco Giraldi. He mainly concentrated on composing orchestral and chamber music, including many sung and recited works. He also composed a substantial body of choral music with and without accompaniment. He won numerous international awards, including the City of Trieste International Competition Music Award, the Prince Pierre de Monaco Prix de Composition Musicale, the Gianfrancesco Malipiero (Treviso) Prize, the Music Composition Prize of the Hungarian Union of Composers (Budapest), the XIII ''Concurso Internacionale de Composicion Musical'' (Tolosa, Spain), the ''Concours Européen de Composition'' (Leuven, Belgium), the "Carl Maria von Weber" ''International Wettbewerb für Kammeroper''" (Dresden), the "Ocar Esplà" ''Premio Internacional de Musica'' (Alicante), the Tone Tomsic International Prize for Music Composition (Ljubljana, Slovenia), the ''Concours International de Composition de Musique Sacré'' (Fribourg, Switzerland) and the International Edvard Grieg Memorial Competition for Composers (Oslo, Norway). In 2012 the "Coral Award" was established, International Composition Competition inserted (in alternate years) in the chamber music competition "Premio Trio di Trieste", organized by the (Trieste Chamber Music ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Giampaolo Coral」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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