alessandro meacci
music works
Publications
De Gaudio, I. C., Meacci, A. (2024), “Analysis of Two ‘Formulaic’ Repertoires with the Opusmodus System.” In: AuditoriuM, Year 2, No. 2, pp. 3–23.
De Gaudio, I. C., Meacci, A. (2022), “The Opusmodus Software for the Computerized Analysis of Some Formulaic Repertoires. In: XIX International Conference on Music Analysis and Theory (GATM) – New Boundaries Between Text and Performance, RATM, UniversItalia, Rome, 2022. ISBN: 978-88-3293-615-5.
Meacci, A., “Figli del Mare,” poetry, in Il Tiburtino, preface by Hafez Haidar, Nobel Prize nominee. Aletti Editore, Vesta, 2020. ISBN: 978-88-591-6679-5.
Published Works
Revolution X, album of ten pieces for piano. Multiforce, Bergamo, 2020 – 2025
Aqua Virgo, triptych for solo flute. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2020. With CD.
Essential, romance for cello and piano. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2020.
Modern Rhapsody, for solo piano. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2020.
Sei bagatelle, for wind quintet, in homage to György Ligeti. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2020.
Break Flute, for solo flute. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021.
Quartetto di sassofoni, for saxophone quartet. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021. With CD.
Romanza, for alto saxophone and piano. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021.
Passacaglia, for string orchestra. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021. With DVD.
Due melologhi, for soprano, harp and string orchestra, on texts by Eugenio Montale; dedicated to soprano F. Longari. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021.
Egloga, for reciting voice, choir and large orchestra, on a text by Dante Alighieri. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021.
Divertimento, for solo double bass. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021. With DVD.
Quintetto di flauti, for flute quintet. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021.
Dittico Boetti, for solo piano. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2021. With CD.
Not so f(w)ar, three pieces for saxophone quartet, dedicated to M° Francesco Salime. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2022. With DVD.
Toccata, for solo guitar, dedicated to M° V. Sebastiani, S. Bracci and F. Attanasio. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2023. With DVD.
Eva e Ennio, for violin and piano, dedicated to M° Luigi Lanzillotta. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2023. With DVD.
Essential, collection of seven pieces for piano. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo, 2023.
Il Piccolo Principe, theatrical work for spoken and sung voice, piano, violin and electronics. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2024. With DVD. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
My Journey to Beijing, theatrical work for spoken and sung voice, piano, percussion and electronics. Agenda Edizioni, Monte San Pietro (BO), 2024. With DVD. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
Vjersha – Canto di madre, for solo cello. Agenda Edizioni, Bologna, 2025.
Carmen Jazz Fantasy. Agenda Edizioni, Bologna, 2025. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
Stupor Mundi, one-act television drama. Agenda Edizioni, Bologna, 2025. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
Cleopatra, opera in two acts. Agenda Edizioni, Bologna, 2025. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
Gli Ultimi Giorni di Garibaldi, symphonic poem. Edizioni Sconfinarte, Milan, 2025. Silente Classic (Multiforce), Bergamo
Apollinaire ovvero il ladro della Gioconda, for soprano and piano. Edizioni Sconfinarte, Milan, 2026.
Petite Romance, for cello and piano, Edizioni Sconfinarte, Milan, 2026
Mediterranean Waltz, for orchestra, Edizioni Sconfinarte, Milan, 2026.
OPERA
Cleopatra
Opera in two acts on a libretto by Marco Maria Tosolini.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2025 – Multiforce Bergamo.
World premiere: Teatro Politeama, Catanzaro, 11 October 2025 – Festival d’Autunno.
Performance: Teatro Palladium, Rome, 13 October 2025.
MUSIC THEATRE
Lei, lui, lei e lui…
Music for the theatrical production directed by Antonietta Lo Bianco.
Performance: Teatro India, Rome, 25 September 2019 – Festival Contaminazioni, Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio d’Amico”.
With Luca Carbone and Giulia Sessich.
The Little Prince
Theatrical work for spoken and sung voice, piano, violin and electronics.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2024 – Multiforce Bergamo.
Performance: Tenuta di Tor Marancia, Rome, 8 August 2024.
My Journey to Beijing
Theatrical work for spoken and sung voice, piano, percussion and electronics.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2024 – Multiforce Bergamo.
National premiere: Palazzo De Nobili, Catanzaro, 5 October 2024 – Festival d’Autunno.
Carmen Jazz Fantasy
Jazz reinterpretation of Georges Bizet’s Carmen for voice, saxophone, piano and electronics.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2025 – Multiforce Bergamo.
National premiere: Castello Normanno, Squillace, 19 August 2025 – Festival d’Autunno.
Performance: Palazzo Mazza, Borgia, 20 August 2025 – Festival d’Autunno.
Alessandro Meacci, piano and electronics; Francesco Salime, saxophone; Erica Salbego, voice, percussion and stage direction.
Stupor Mundi
One-act music-theatre work on the figure of Frederick II, on a text by Valerio Vicari.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2025 – Multiforce Bergamo.
World premiere: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Prenestino – Cavea of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, 26 August 2025.
Performance: Museo Archeologico Nazionale Prenestino – Cavea of the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, 27 August 2025.
Performances: Parco di Tor Marancia, Rome, 19–20 September 2025.
Performance: Teatro Palladium, Rome, 21 April 2026.
Music by Alessandro Meacci; text by Valerio Vicari; stage direction by Erica Salbego.
Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble.
Gli Ultimi Giorni di Garibaldi, symphonic poem on a text by Valerio Vicari.
Edizioni Sconfinarte, Milan; Multiforce, Bergamo.
Teatro Sociale, Trento — 17 November 2025
Fondazione Haydn – Teatro Sociale, Trento
Auditorium | Konzerthaus, Bolzano — 18 November 2025
Fondazione Haydn – Auditorium/Konzerthaus, Bolzano
Kurhaus, Merano — 20 November 2025
Fondazione Haydn – Kurhaus, Merano
CHAMBER MUSIC & SYMPHONY MUSIC
Revolution X
Collection of ten pieces for piano.
Multiforce, Bergamo.
Selected performance: Convitto Vittorio Locchi, Rome, 8 September 2023.
Aqua Virgo
Triptych for solo flute.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2020.
Essential
Romance for cello and piano.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2020.
Modern Rhapsody
For solo piano.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2020.
Performance: Tour Music Fest, Rome.
Sei Bagatelle
For wind quintet, in homage to György Ligeti.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2020.
Saxophone Quartet
For saxophone quartet.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Performance: Ente dei Concerti, Pesaro, 2022.
Romanza d’Estate
For alto saxophone and piano.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Passacaglia
For string orchestra.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Performance: Cittadellarte – Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, 30 October 2021.
Contemporary Ensemble “C@n’t tell it”, Andrea Cappelleri, conductor.
Two Melologues
For soprano, harp and string orchestra, on texts by Eugenio Montale.
Dedicated to soprano F. Longari.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
BreakFlute
For solo flute.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Dittico Boetti
For solo piano.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Selected performance: Convitto Vittorio Locchi, Rome, 8 September 2023.
Alessandro Meacci, piano.
Egloga
For narrator, choir and large orchestra, on a text by Dante Alighieri.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Divertimento
For solo double bass.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Flute Quintet
For flute quintet.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2021.
Sentieri interrotti
Trio for flute, clarinet and cello.
2021.
Not So F(W)AR
Three pieces for saxophone quartet.
Dedicated to M° Francesco Salime.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2022.
First performance: Francesco Salime Saxophone Quartet.
Cantata
For choir and organ, on the Psalm Adorate Dominum, in aula sancta eius, from Five Introits for Ordinary Time, edited by Don Gilberto Sessantini.
2022.
Nervatures
Stochastic poem for orchestra.
2022.
Suite PPP
For three percussionists and piano, inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini.
2022.
Fantasy
For flute quartet.
2023.
Toccata
For solo guitar.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2023.
World premiere: Sala Casella, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Rome, 12 May 2023.
Federico Attanasio, guitar.
Eva e Ennio
Suite for violin and piano.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2023.
World premiere: Auditorium Ennio Morricone, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 5 June 2023.
Vincenzo Bolognese, violin; Monaldo Braconi, piano.
Essential – Piano Album
Collection of seven pieces for piano.
Bergamo: Silente Classic / Multiforce Publishing, 2023.
Selected performance: Convitto Vittorio Locchi, Rome, 8 September 2023.
Alessandro Meacci, piano.
Due Danze per Milano
For solo harp.
2024.
Vjersha – Canto di madre, for solo cello.
Agenda Edizioni, Bologna, 2025.
World Premiere: Aula Magna “M. Bisegna”, Liceo L. B. Alberti, Minturno — 30 March 2025
Giulia Deda, cello
Suoni Oltre Confine – Giulia Deda
Petite Romance, for cello and piano
Overijse / Brussels — 7 March 2026
Delta Towards Excellence.
Alessandro Meacci – Concerts
Apollinaire ovvero il ladro della Gioconda, for soprano and piano
Terni — 14 April 2026
Accademia Filarmonica Umbra.
Accademia Filarmonica Umbra
Parafrasi pianistica dell’Opera Cleopatra, for piano solo
Commissioned by La Ghironda APS for PianoLab 2026.
PianoLab – “Suona con noi”, Ceglie Messapica — 24 July 2026
PianoLab – “Suona con noi”, Ceglie Messapica — 25 July 2026
SONGWRITING
Via
Lyrics by A. Il Grande.
Music by Alessandro Meacci.
2016.
L’Uomo e il Gabbiano
Lyrics by A. Il Grande.
Music by Alessandro Meacci.
2019.
SOUNDTRACKS
Ricordi di Pietra
Original music for documentary film.
Regione Basilicata, 2017.
Porta a Porta
Music for the RAI television programme.
2021.
Geo
Music for the RAI television programme.
2023–2025.
TRANSCRIPTIONS & ARRANGEMENTS
ACCADEMIA DEL MAGGIO MUSICALE FIORENTINO
Claudio Monteverdi, Toccata from L’Orfeo
Giuseppe Verdi, Prelude – Act I from La traviata
Giacomo Puccini, “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi
Georges Bizet, “Près des remparts de Séville” (Séguedille) from Carmen
Jacques Offenbach, “Belle nuit, ô nuit d’amour” (Barcarolle) from Les contes d’Hoffmann
Gaetano Donizetti, “Pronta io son” from Don Pasquale
Gaetano Donizetti, “Una furtiva lagrima” from L’elisir d’amore
Pietro Mascagni, Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana
Ruggero Leoncavallo, Mattinata
Ernesto De Curtis, Torna a Surriento
Georges Bizet, Intermezzo from Carmen
Eduardo Di Capua, ’O sole mio
Giacomo Puccini, “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca
Giacomo Puccini, “Nessun dorma” from Turandot
Giuseppe Verdi, “Libiamo ne’ lieti calici” from La traviata
Arrangements for orchestral ensemble commissioned by the Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and realized by Alessandro Meacci.
Performance: Palazzo Pitti, Florence, 13 April 2026.
Performance reference
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B-flat major, BWV 1051
Transcription for two solo violas and string ensemble by Alessandro Meacci.
Rome: Roma Tre Press, 2026.
Concerto for Two Violins, Strings and Continuo in D minor, BWV 1043
Transcription for two solo violas and string ensemble by Alessandro Meacci.
Rome: Roma Tre Press, 2026.
Performance: Teatro Palladium, Rome, 1 March 2026.
Anna Serova and Lorenzo Rundo, solo violas; Roma Tre Orchestra.
Teatro Palladium – Colore Viola
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
I nemici generosi – Overture
I due baroni di Rocca Azzurra – Overture
L’italiana in Londra – Overture
Il ritorno di Don Calendrino – Overture
Arrangements for chamber quintet by Alessandro Meacci.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2024.
Performance: Sala Squarzina, Teatro Argentina, Rome, 11 December 2023.
Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble; Sandro Cappelletto, narrator.
Teatro di Roma – Cimarosa, 11 December 2023
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Torvaldo e Dorliska – “Ah, qual voce”
Arrangement for chamber ensemble and voice by Alessandro Meacci.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2024.
Performance: Sala Squarzina, Teatro Argentina, Rome, 15 January 2024.
Roma Tre Orchestra Ensemble; Daniele Carnini, narrator.
Teatro Argentina – Rossini, 15 January 2024
MAURICE RAVEL
Jeux d’eau
Transcription for large saxophone ensemble by Alessandro Meacci.
Bologna: Agenda Edizioni, 2024.
Performance: Cortile d’Onore, Palazzo Reale, Naples, 25 May 2024 – SaxophonEvent 2024.
Francesco Iannelli, conductor.
Ministry of Culture – Palazzo Reale, Naples
VINCENZO VALENTE
’O trammelettrico
Dialogued song. Text by Pasquale Cinquegrana.
Arrangement and transcription for piccolo/flute, soprano saxophone, baritone, triangle, guitar, violin and piano by Alessandro Meacci.
Autunno
Song on a sonnet by Lorenzo Stecchetti.
Arrangement and transcription for flute, guitar, soprano, violin and piano by Alessandro Meacci.
L’aggio ’a dicere a mammà
Dialogued song. Text by R. Della Campa.
Arrangement and transcription for piccolo, flute, tambourine, acoustic guitar, soprano, baritone, violin and piano by Alessandro Meacci.
NICOLA VALENTE
Signorinella
Text by Libero Bovio.
Arrangement and transcription for piccolo, flute, soprano saxophone, baritone, violin, guitar and piano by Alessandro Meacci.
Passione
Music by Nicola Valente and Ernesto Tagliaferri. Text by Libero Bovio.
Arrangement and transcription for flute, soprano saxophone, baritone, guitar, violin and piano by Alessandro Meacci.
Performance: Teatro Valente, Corigliano-Rossano, 5 December 2021.
Ensemble Valente; Alessandro Meacci, piano.
Musica Valente – 5 December 2021
Alessandro Meacci
"Modern music has centered interest on two problems: that of tonality, and that of dissonance. It cannot be said that the conflict regarding these questions is new, nor that it is waged with new weapons."
Arnold Schoenberg - 1927