StefanoPaparozzi.com
Works
(listen to the YouTube playlist here)
2021
Piano Sonata No.2
17'/19'
Piano
A quiet reflection over the nature of sound.
2021
Piano Quintet No.1
14'3'"
Piano, String Quartet
A slow, reflexive, long chamber work
2021
Piano Sonata No.1
19'00"
Piano
A Piano Sonata with minimalist suggestions.
2021
Ragtime en Rondeau
5'00"
Harpsichord
A divertissement for Harpsichord solo
2021
Stabat Mater
9'00"
Choir, Solo Voice, Strings
Part of my ongoing project "Other Animals. A Vegan Cantata"
2021
Slaughter Waltz
5'
Piano solo
Part of my project "Other Animals. A Vegan Cantata"
2021
A Threefold Ètude
6'30"
Piano solo
A short but challenging study in three parts
2021
6 Nocturnes
15'
Piano
A set of 6 pieces for Piano solo.
2021
9 Chorale Preludes
28'
Organ
A set of Chorale Preludes echoing the canonic form of Baroque, but in a contemporary language.
2021
3 Melodies
13'30"
Free Instrument and Piano
Three melodic pieces for a free Instrument accompanied by Piano.
2021
Halleluja!
5'
4 Voices
Short piece for 4 Voices, well suitable for multi-track recording.
2021
4 Adagi
12'
Piano
Four slow pieces for Piano solo.
2021
US
7'
Piano
A small piece dealing with the violent fact in the USA at the beginning of 2021.
2020
Five Preludes and a Fugue
21'
Piano
Six pieces for solo Piano, trying to merge the Baroque and the Minimalist spirits.
2020
A Litany in Time of Plague
4'
Voice and free Instrumentation
Last piece of 2020, facing the Covid-19 issue through a poem about the 16th century plague.
2020
Three Pieces for Cello Solo
10'
Cello
A set of slow pieces for Cello solo
2019-20
The Studies for Strings
9'
String Orchestra
Three pieces for String Orchestra, dealing with specific expression issues.
2020
Three Studies for String Orchestra
9'
String Orchestra
Three short minimal movement for strings.
2020
Meditation Music (String Orchestra version)
13,
String Orchestra
Four slow and meditative pieces. Also in Four Violas version.
2020
Meditation Music
13'
Vers. 1 = 4 Violas / Vers. 2 = String Orchestra
Four short and meditative pieces. Existing both in a version for4 Violas and for String Orchestra.
2020
Meditation Music (4 Violas version)
13'
4 Violas
Four slow and meditative piece. Also in String Orchestra version.
2020
What I Hear After Some Time Among the People
5'
Bass Flute and Pre-recorded Track
Another piece wrote for Digital Noisy Night event by the Red Note Ensemble.
2020
The Bald Man and the She-Bears
6'
SSA Choir - Bass solo - Baroque Orchestra
Sort of a parody of a Baroque cantata, this is the first part of a project about some disturbing chapters of the Bible.
2020
Der Panther
5'30"
Voice + Strings + Perc.
Another piece for my work-in-progress project "Other Animals. A Vegan Cantata". Here is a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, about a panther caged in a zoo
2020
What Dwells Inside a Breath
1'
Accordion
An aphorism written for the call for scores by the accordionist Martina Jembrišak.
2020
Waltzes und Ländler
9'
Piano
A set of four dances, very elementary in thei harmonic structure, as much as complex in theur rhythmic deformations.
2020
A Chord Chart
4'30"
Guitar solo
Another piece written for the Red Note Ensemble, for their first cycle of online concerts post-pandemic.
2020
D'amore
1'30"
Flute d'amour and Trumpet in B flat
A hort piece for Ginevra Petrucci's Flauto d'amore project, and her album "creativity quarantine" (https://flautodamoreproject.bandcamp.com/album/creativity-quarantine)
2020
Four Quarantine Études
7'
Piano
Another set of pieces written during the almost-global lock down: four more or less challenging études for your quarantine practice days.
2020
Pianissimo (musica minima #19-21)
10'
Piano
My first (and not last) work since the COVID-19 quarantine started here in Italy, a minimalist piece to get over this weird times.
2020
Sursum Corda
7'
Cello and Piano
Piece award with the 3rd Prize at "Over the Rainbow. Compositions for Human Rights" held by mdw – University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
2019
Incipit Lamentatio Gallinarum in Vinculis
10' / 12'
String Orchestra
An antispecist work, depicting the living conditions of chickens in intensive farming.
2019
G Minor, E Major
25"
Violin and Harp
An aphorism written for Philippa Mo and Olivia Jageurs (15secondharp.com).
2019
As Above, so Below
3'00"
Flute, Trumpet and Contrabass
A piece written for Red Note Ensemble, where Flute and Contrabass act like a single instrument, defining the space in which the Trumpet tries to move, attempting an interaction with that world.
2019
The Things I Can Eat (as a Vegan)
15'/15'30"
Voice and Piano
A list of plants' scientific names, set on experimental-minimal-symbolic music.
2019
A.M.E.N.
10'30" / 11'00"
Choir SSAATTBB
A setting of the tiniest religious formula – the word “amen” – shattered into its smaller parts, and purged of its liturgical significance.
2019
Steps
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Harp
An aphorism written for Olivia Jageurs' project 15secondharp.com.
2019
M. Mussorgsky's “The Seamstress”
3'00"
ott. - 2 fl. - 2 ob. - 2 cl. in sib - 2 fag. - 2 cor. - 2 tb. - tne. - timp. - tamb. mil. - pt. - w.b. - glock. - ar. - vn. I e II - vle. - vc. - cb.
An arrangement of a piece by Modest Mussorgsky, made as a challenge for orchestrationonline.com
2019
Toccata Attutita
15'00"
Piano (prepared)
A piece for dampened piano about repetition and obsession, challenging both the player and the listeners.
2019
Aequale Sonatina
6'30" / 7'00"
4 free instruments
A sonatina in three movements for four identical instruments, with freedom of choosing them (as long as they can read a treble score).
2019
Berceuse in 20 Measures
4'00" / 4'50"
Piano (prepared)
A small minimalistic piece about obsession, repetition and grief.
2019
How Are the Mighty Fallen!
5'30"
Male Chanter - Choir TTBB - Harp
A set of the complaint of David on the death of Saul and Jonathan.
2019
Suspirium Mundi
3'00"
Free instrumentation
A piece totally free in instrumentation, althought it gives the best results with more instruments.
2019
The Heiligenstadt Testament
4'50"
The Heiligenstadt Testament
A thought about Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament, the (supposedly) suicide note he never sent to his brothers.
2019
A Study on Persistence
4'15"
String Orchestra
A though piece for String Orchestra, that gives the players a wide freedom about techniques, but requires preseverance and concentration.
2019
Fanfare
2'00" / 3'00"
4 (or 4x) Brass ad lib. - Perc. ad lib.
A solemn fanfare for four (or a multiple of four) Brass, with optional Percussions.
2019
L’Âme en Paix
5'00"
String Orchestra (min 3.3.2.2.1) - Hp. ad lib
A response to François Couperin's piece for harpsichord L'âme en peine.
2019
To Every Thing There Is a Season
6'30"
4 Brass/Ww. ad lib. - opt. perc. ad lib. - SATB Choir – org.
Text is from Ecclesiastes (Qoelet), a book in Bible about depression and the search of the meaning of life. It requires a SATB choir and an organ, plus optional four (or a multiple of four) Brass and/or Woodwinds, and optional low Percussions.
2018
J. S. Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor BWV 582
13'00"
ott. - fl. - ob. - cl. in sib - cl. b. in sib - sax alto - fag. - cor. - tb. - tne. - ar. - pno. - timp. - fru. - tamb. mil. - pt. - tam.llo - xil. - chit. - 4 vn. - 2 ve. - 2 vc. - cb.
An arrangement for large ensemble of the well-known Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor by J. S. Bach.
2018
Tanzt!
6'20"
String Quartet
A dance movement for string quartet with irregular rhythms and modal harmonies.
2018
BWV 906
4'00"
ott. - fl. - ob. - cl. in sib - sax alto - fag. - cor. - tb. - tne. - pno. - flex. (opt.) - 4 vn. - 2 ve. - 2 vc. - cb.
An arrangement of the unfinished Fugue BWV 906 by J. S. Bach.
2018
Tanzt!
6'20"
String Quartet
A dance movement for string quartet with irregular rhythms and modal harmonies.
2016
musica minima
9'30"
Piano solo
A suite of four minimal piano pieces, in four different moods.