Franco Oppo (2 October 1935 – 14 January 2016) was an Italian composer and scholar.
Born in
Nuoro
Nuoro ( or less correctly ; sc, Nùgoro ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of the Monte Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), ...
, Oppo studied at the Conservatory of
Cagliari
Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...
, graduating in piano (1958), choral music and choral conducting (1960), and composition (1961).
Since 1965 he won several international composition competitions.
He was professor of composition and experimental composition at the Conservatory of Cagliari and professor of music theory at the
Cagliari University
The University of Cagliari ( it, Università degli Studi di Cagliari) is a public research university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties.
History
The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was found ...
.
Oppo published various studies and essays, particularly about
music semiology Music semiology ( semiotics) is the study of signs as they pertain to music on a variety of levels.
Overview
Following Roman Jakobson, Kofi Agawu adopts the idea of musical semiosis being introversive or extroversive—that is, musical signs wit ...
and
ethnic music.
His studies mainly focused on
aleatoric music and on testing new types of
notation.
References
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1935 births
2016 deaths
People from Nuoro
Italian composers
Italian essayists
Male essayists
Academic staff of the University of Cagliari
Italian male non-fiction writers
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