Elisabetta Brusa's Simply Largo
This March, the Daily Classical Music Post will introduce you to some of the most wonderful music ever composed—and, yes, it will all be by women composers! https://youtu.be/KMNiUEJG0Fk The Italian composer Elisabetta Brusa (born 1954) began composing before she was five years old! Her composition teachers included Peter Maxwell Davies, Hans Keller, Hans Werner Henze, and Gunther Schuller. Brusa has written many orchestral works, including symphonies and several tone poems, as well as chamber works and solo instrumental pieces. She describes her style as "close to Neo-Tonality and in particular to Neo-Romanticism, but in the original sense of the word, which is nowadays often confusedly assimilated to other ones," and her harmony as "essentially pandiatonic with panchromatic moments." She won first prize at the Washington International Competition for Composition for String Quartet in 1982, and also has been the recipient of several other awards. She has said, ...