Piero Niro (born 1957) is an Italian composer, classical pianist, and academic specialising in the philosophy of music and

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. Niro was born in Baranello in the southern Italian region of

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and initially studied piano and composition at the music conservatory in

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before transferring to the Accademia Santa Cecilia in Rome where he received diplomas in piano and composition. He also received a

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in philosophy at the

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before going on to postgraduate studies in composition Accademia Santa Cecilia with

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th-century classical music, 20th and early 21st-century ...

and

Franco Donatoni Franco Donatoni (9 June 1927 – 17 August 2000) was an Italian composer. Biography Born in Verona, Donatoni started studying violin at the age of seven, and frequented the local music academy. Later, he studied at the Milan Conservatory ...

. His string quartet won First Prize at the 1985 Concorso Internazionale Ennio Porrino. Three of his compositions have subsequently been published by

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: *''3 Pezzi'' for solo piano *''Game'' for piano, flute, clarinet, 2 violins viola and cello (broadcast by the

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in 1989) *''Ottetto'' for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, and cello Since 1989 Niro has been of Head of the Composition department of the Conservatorio di Musica Lorenzo Perosi in

where he is also Professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics and Analysis and Theory of Music. Amongst his publications on music and aesthetics is his 2008 study of

Wittgenstein Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein ( ; ; 26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrians, Austrian-British people, British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy o ...

, ''Ludwig Wittgenstein e la musica'' (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane).Silvestro, Ivo (June 2010
"Niro, Piero, Ludwig Wittgenstein e la musica."
''ReF - Recensioni filosofiche'', No. 51. Retrieved 8 November 2013 .

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– Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica {{DEFAULTSORT:Niro, Piero Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers 20th-century classical composers 21st-century classical composers Italian classical pianists Male classical pianists Italian male pianists 1957 births Living people University of Rome Tor Vergata alumni 20th-century Italian composers 21st-century classical pianists 20th-century Italian male musicians 21st-century Italian male musicians People from the Province of Campobasso Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni