Gian Paolo Chiti (born January 21, 1939 in Rome) is an Italian composer and pianist. January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ...

After beginning his studies in piano, violin and composition at the age of four, he made a series of appearances as a child prodigy before entering the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy's most important music school, at the age of ten. His principal teachers include Carlo Zecchi, Arturo Bonucci and Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (private and masterclass studies). Chiti was a prizewinner in the Treviso and Busoni competitions. A grand piano A piano is a keyboard instrument, widely used in western music for solo performance, chamber music, and accompaniment, and also as a convenient aid to composing and rehearsal. ... The pitches of open strings on a violin The violin is a bowed stringed musical instrument that has four strings tuned a perfect fifth apart, the lowest being the G just below middle C. It is the smallest and highest-tuned member of the violin family of string instruments, which... Musical composition is: an original piece of music the structure of a musical piece the process of creating a new piece of music // A musical composition A piece of music exists in the form of a written composition in musical notation or as a single acoustic event (a live performance... A child prodigy, or simply prodigy, is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. ... The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in a musical academy and symphonic organization based in Rome, Italy. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Left-Wing Democrats) Area  - City Proper  1285 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2. ... Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (January 5, 1920 – June 12, 1995) was an Italian classical pianist. ...

Gian Paolo Chiti began a duel career as a concert pianist, often in the company of his wife, the noted mezzo soprano and president and founder of the Adkins-Chiti Donne in Musica foundation Patricia Adkins Chiti and as a composer. He has written works for almost every conceivable ensemble as well as for electronic media. His catalogue also includes a large number of film and television scores. His compositions have been programmed both in Italy and abroad at such festivals as the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Biennale in Venice, Edinburgh Festival, Lutoslawski Festival, Cantiere Internazionale of Montepulciano, Nuova Consonanza, Incontri Musicali Romani, Chopin Festival in Poland, Sacred Music Festival in Chartres, France, Teatro Nacional di Caraccas in Venezuela and the Public Season at the Moscow Conservatory. A mezzo-soprano (meaning half soprano in Italian) is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above (i. ... A film score is the background music in a film, generally specially written for the film and often used to heighten emotions provoked by the imagery on the screen or by the dialogue. ... The Moscow Conservatory is a prominent music school in Russia. ...

Chiti has held the post of Head of the Composition department of the Conservatorio at the Santa Cecilia in Rome since 1984. More than a generation of important young Italian musicians have been trained through his teaching. In addition, he is also a member of the Italian National committee for Dance as well as on the faculty of several universities. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ...

Chronological Works List

This list includes all serious concert music composed by Gian Paolo Chiti, including works for young musicians. It does not include transcriptions and arrangements, nor does it include film and television scores and popular works.

• Zoological Garden (solo piano - young performers) (1951)
• O Sacrum Convivium (SATB chorus) (1958)
• Sestetto a fiato n° 1 (flute, clarinet, 2 bassoons, trumpet, trombone) (1954)
• Sestetto a fiato n° 2 (flute, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, trumpet in C) (1958)
• Quartetto per Archi (string quartet) (1959)
• Cinque preludi per pianoforte (1961)
• Suite per pianoforte n° 2 (1961)
• Tre mottetti per coro misto (SATB chorus) (1961)
• Per orchestra (for orchestra) (1962)
• Tre pezzi per pianoforte (1962)
• Concerto per orchestra d’archi (for string orchestra) (1963)
• Concerto per dieci strumenti/for ten instruments) (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, vibraphone, timpani, harp, violin, viola, violoncello) (1964)
• Due mottetti a cappella (SATB chorus) (1964)
• Inscription (solo flute) (1966)
• Nachtmusik (for strings) (1966)
• Serenade per cinque strumenti (flute, bass clarinet, viola, violoncello, piano) (1966)
• Divertimento n° 2 (flute, violin, viola, violoncello) (1967)
• Especially when the October wind (medium voice, piano) (1967)
• Holy Sonnet of John Donne (medium voice, piano) (1967)
• Pilatus (contralto, tenor, organ) (1968)
• Ricercare ’70 (2 oboes, bassoon, 2 horns, strings)(1968)
• We lying by the Sea Sand (high voice, piano) (1968)
• Y Ara Dirè (two guitars) (1969)
• Conversation with myself (solo violin) (1969)
• Matrona Quaedam (chamber opera) (1969)
• Violin concerto (solo violin, orchestra) (1969)
• In Dateless Night (string quartet) (1970/1)
• Into my own (solo organ) (1971)
• Lebenslauf (clarinet, violin, viola, violoncello, piano) (1971)
• Sie erlischt (violin, piano) (1971)
• Yerma (ballet) (1971)
• A Dylan Thomas (ballet) (1972)
• Andante (flute, bassoon, pianoforte) (1968)
• Divertimento (flute, violin, harpsichord) (1972)
• Elegia (flute, piano) (1972)
• Movements per pianoforte (1972)
• Breakers (four harps) (1973)
• El Icaro (solo harpsichord) (1973)
• Ottetto per 2 soprani, 2 contralti, 2 tenori, 2 bassi (for SATB/SATB) (1973)
• Rencontres (flute, strings) (1973)
• Spleen (treble and bass recorders, violoncello, piano) (1973)
• Dal profondo (clarinet, bassoon, piano) (1974)
• Prelude d’automne (flute, viola, harp) (1975)
• Replay (2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns) (1975)
• Shahed-B (oboe, harpsichord) (1975)
• Games Around the Six with Eleven (string orchestra) (1976)
• Persefone (solo flute, flute in G and flute in C) (1977)
• Piccola raccolta per organo (1978)
• Rondeau (solo flute) (1978)
• Anthem (solo violoncello) (1979)
• In Mind (solo guitar) (1979)
• Flutar (flute, harp) (1979)
• Pastorale (flute, harp) (1979)
• Preludio romantico (piano - young performers) (1979)
• Piccola suite per pianoforte (piano - young performers) (1980)
• Serenata (flute, oboe, bassoon) (1980)
• Around (solo guitar) (1981)
• Melodia (Bb clarinet, piano) (1981)
• Adieu adieu (wind quintet: flute, oboe, clarinet, and bassoon, horn) (1982)
• Rag prelude per pianoforte (1982)
• Retour (solo violin, viola and violoncello, string orchestra) (1982)
• Trivium (mezzo-soprano, string orchestra) (1983)
• Arion (solo guitar) (1983)
• In the Merry Month of May (brass quintet: 2 trumpets, flugelhorn, horn, trombone, tuba) (1983)
• Kammerstück (clarinet, violoncello, trombone, piano) (1983)
• Konzertstuck (orchestra) (1984)
• Per lontane vie per pianoforte (1985)
• Ground (piano four hands) (1985)
• Ipodyon (solo harp) (1985)
• Triplum (flute, violin, harpsichord) (1985)
• Wintermusik (flute, clarinet, violon, violoncello, piano) (1985)
• In Sogno (two flutes: doubling piccolo, flute, alto flute, bass flute and piano) (1986)
• Recordari (trumpet in C, organ) (1986)
• Tropi per chartres (alto saxophone, string quartet) (1996)
• Fogli d’album (Albumblatter) (solo guitar) (1987)
• Abendstucke per pianoforte (1989)
• Action (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, violocello) (1990)
• European suite (solo guitar) (1990)
• Kinamama (two flutes, piano) (1990)
• Octopus Line (flute, oboe, clarinet, 2 bassoons, horn, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones) (1990)
• Salve regina (mezzo-soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, strings) (1991)
• European Lieder Book (high voice, piano) (1992)
• Intermezzo (violin, viola, violoncello) (1992)
• Arion suite per pianoforte (1993)
• Cahier des Reves (violin, violoncello, piano) (1993)
• Tre liriche su poesie di J. Basile (soprano, piano) (1993)
• Triple (flute, clarinet, bassoon) (1993)
• Concertino per sax tenore e otto violoncelli (tenor saxophone, cello octet) (1994)
• Sur les bois oubliés (solo viola) (1995)
• Rime (medium voice, viola, piano) (1998)
• Laudarium in onore della beata vergine Maria (SATB chorus, brass ensemble) (2000)
• Plexus (two bass flutes) (2001)
• Envers (orchestra) (2002)
• Extrême per pianoforte (2002)
• Seagulls per pianoforte (2002)
• En ecoutant la nuit (string quartet) (2003)
• L’età dell’ombra (clarinet, viola, piano) (2003)
• Burlesque (solo tenor saxophone) (2005)
• Capriccio (Bb clarinet) (2005)
• Counterpoint in F (Bb clarinet, tenor saxophone) (2005)
• Prelude (alto saxophone, piano) (2005)
• Two liturgical pieces (organ) (2005)

External links

• The Composer's Personal Website
• The Composer's page at Musik Fabrik Music Publishing