"Gesualdo da Venosa" Musical Performance Competition

... I don't understand ... a competition for guitarists, violinists, violists and pianists titled after Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, who never wrote anything for piano, guitar or strings... ?

thallo wrote:

... I don't understand ... a competition for guitarists, violinists, violists and pianists dedicated to Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, who never wrote anything for piano, guitar or strings... ?

But is the name of the association binding regarding the repertoire it must address? Perhaps the name is just a tribute... I certainly don't think one can ask to write for lute today ...

thallo wrote:

... I don't understand ... a competition for guitarists, violinists, violists and pianists dedicated to Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa, who never wrote anything for piano, guitar or strings... ?

I had my eye on the one proposed by Frank here

http://www.pianoconc...i-composizione/

It announces

SYNCHRONIES for GESUALDO, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS LATER

music Composition and Production competition

of which the present text constitutes the call for entries.

To me it seems obvious, perhaps because I aim to become a composer and have my own needs, that one should NOT write in the style of other composers and anyway, in the event that one starts from existing material, to express one's own voice seriously, with conscience but not with the words and manners of someone who created the material. Ergo, no stylistic reconstructions... which also include the instrumentation.

Therefore I didn't understand the nature of this criticism, what would you have expected? I ask also out of curiosity...

WAM wrote:

But is the name of the 'association' binding regarding the repertoire it must deal with? Perhaps the name is just a tribute... surely I don't think one can ask to write for lute today ...

From what I understood from the links, there isn't a Gesualdo association in charge of the competition. It is the name of the competition itself. And I don't understand what you mean when you talk about compositions for lute. This is not a composition competition. Besides, contemporary composers do write for lute...

AbateFaria wrote:

I had spotted the one proposed by Frank here

http://www.pianoconc...i-composizione/

It announces

SYNCHRONIES for GESUALDO, FOUR HUNDRED YEARS LATER

composition and musical production competition
of which this text constitutes the call for entries.

To me it seems obvious, perhaps because I aim to become a composer and have my own needs, that one should NOT write in the style of other composers and anyway, in case starting from existing material, to express one's own voice seriously, with conscience but not with the words and ways of those who created the material. Ergo, no stylistic reconstructions... which also include the instrumentation.

I don't know, maybe you haven't read the call for that competition... re-elaborations of pieces by Gesualdo are required. How should I put it, they didn't put his name there at random; it is directly linked to the requirements of the competition...

Therefore, I haven't understood the nature of this criticism, what would you have expected? I ask also out of curiosity...

Unlike that competition, this one we are talking about does NOT have links to the name of Gesualdo da Venosa. His pieces are not requested, pieces from his period are not requested, it is not a competition where instrumentalists for whom Gesualdo wrote something will compete, nor even instruments present in the period when Gesualdo was writing (so to speak, even if one wanted to do things related to Gesualdo, the piano physically wasn't around at those times...). As I said before, moreover, it doesn't seem to me that there is a Gesualdo musical association in charge of the competition, and even if there were, it's not as if the name of a competition must necessarily be the same as that of the association...

They had to choose a name for the competition. They could have called it whatever they wanted, from Capricious Competition to Campania Young Promises Competition (the jury is composed of 4 professors from the 4 Campanian conservatories), but they chose the name Gesualdo... it's me wondering why, given that with Gesualdo there is only a tenuous geographical link (extremely tenuous, I would say, since Scafati in the province of Salerno has nothing to do with Gesualdo...)

Sorry Thallo... I thought it was a composition

It even says "performance" in the topic ... I made a mistake, sorry.

Given the requests and considering that the Gesualdo Competition is designed to provide opportunities to students or former students of the four Conservatories of Campania, it is communicated that those born after January 1, 1985, who hold a three-year degree/intermediate diploma or a two-year degree/advanced diploma in the academic years 2010/11 or 2011/12 (including the February 2013 session), may participate in the Competition. Please ensure maximum dissemination.

Gesualdo Competition Secretariat

it's always nice to be ignored and feel treated like a press office...

I certainly did not want to ignore it, let alone take advantage of a place that I thought was intended for disseminating news about musical competitions.

The competition is intended for students of the conservatories in Campania, so it is undoubtedly a regional award. It is named after Gesualdo da Venosa because this year marks 400 years since his death. Undoubtedly, there is no geographical connection with Gesualdo, although I might object that the place where the competition takes place was part of the feudal holdings of Prince Gesualdo. Furthermore, it is not a composition competition but a performance one: we needed to find a name that could represent the musical world of Campania and we chose him. Perhaps it would have been more appropriate to name it after another musician who grew up musically or lived in Naples. But we opted for him. We certainly cannot ask for pieces by Gesualdo, and this seems obvious to me. To clarify, this is the first edition. For the second, we will also include a category for composition. It would have been quite difficult anyway to name every category after an instrumentalist, especially one from Campania. We would have had to change the name of the competition every year and that would certainly have caused confusion. I believe I have responded to every objection, albeit without claiming to convince. Thank you