Cecilia Seghizzi
{{Short description|Italian painter and composer (1908–2019)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Cecilia Seghizzi
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1908|9|5}}
| birth_place = Gorizia, Austria-Hungary
| death_date = {{death date and age|2019|11|22|1908|09|05|df=y}}
| death_place = Gorizia, Italy
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Composer
- Painter
- Teacher
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Cecilia Seghizzi (5 September 1908 – 22 November 2019){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VsYAAAAIAAJ&q=Cecilia+Seghizzi+5+settembre+1908 |title=International encyclopedia of women composers |volume=2 |first=Aaron I. |last=Cohen |publisher=Books & Music USA |year=1987 |section=SEGHIZZI, Cecilia |page=631|isbn=9780961748524 }} was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian.{{cite web | last1=Blas | first1=di Marco Di | last2=Gily | first2=di Chiara | last3=Legambiente | first3=di | last4=Tolusso | first4=di Mary B. | last5=Park | first5=di AREA Science | last6=Brusaferro | first6=di Micol | last7=Calicanto | first7=di Associazione | last8=Amenduni | first8=di Dino | last9=Bettini | first9=di Rossana | last10=Martinelli | first10=di Carlo | last11=Clarich | first11=di Lorenzo | last12=Buffa | first12=di Pier Vittorio | last13=Canziani | first13=di Roberto | title=Cecilia Seghizzi a 108 anni ha aperto una mostra - Cronaca | website=Il Piccolo | date=19 December 2016 | url=http://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2016/12/19/news/cecilia-seghizzi-a-108-anni-ha-aperto-una-mostra-1.14594867 | language=it | access-date=5 July 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2018/09/06/news/a-cecilia-seghizzi-gli-auguri-di-gorizia-1.17224104|title=A Cecilia Seghizzi gli auguri di Gorizia|publisher=Il Piccolo|date=2018-09-07|accessdate=2019-08-01|language=it|archive-date=2019-08-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801064036/https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2018/09/06/news/a-cecilia-seghizzi-gli-auguri-di-gorizia-1.17224104|url-status=dead}}
Biography
Cecilia Seghizzi was the daughter of composer and choirmaster {{ill|Cesare Augusto Seghizzi|it}} (19 January 1873 – 5 January 1933),{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALkJAQAAMAAJ&q=Cesare+Augusto+Seghizzi+1873|title=Luigi Dallapiccola nel suo secolo: Atti del convegno internazionale, Firenze, 10-12 dicembre 2004|isbn=9788822256379|last1=Nicolodi|first1=Fiamma|year=2007|publisher=L. S. Olschki }} one of Italy's most popular composers. After coming back to Italy after being exiled to the refugee camp of Wagna in Austria during World War I, Cecilia began studying the violin with Alfredo Lucarini and graduated with honors from the Conservatory "G. Verdi" in Milan. In her thirties she alternated between concerts and teaching in middle school and music school.
She began in the meantime to devote herself to composition, completing her studies with a diploma from the conservatory "Tartini" in Trieste under the guidance of Vito Levi. In her fifties she founded and managed the complex Gorizia polyphonic, with which she won first prize at the national polyphonic competition in Brescia. The recognition from this got her a series of concerts and recordings for major venues both at home and abroad. She lived the rest of her life in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia.{{citation needed|date=March 2019}}
Style
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Her music catalog included more than 130 compositions, among which many are choral music. It is in choral music that she used sonorities and driving rhythms, humorous and light swings the most. In this her work is similar to that of Alfredo Casella, Paul Hindemith, and Giulio Viozzi. Her style, very conservative, is linked to neo-classicism, and has had no trace of the innovations introduced by avant-garde music since the 1930s.{{Citation needed|date=June 2021}}
Personal life
On 5 September 2018, she became a supercentenarian upon celebrating her 110th birthday.{{cite news |url=http://www.imagazine.it/notizie-trieste-gorizia-udine-friuli/6203 |title=Auguri, professoressa |language=it |trans-title=Congratulations, Madam Professor |work=I Magazine |first=Vanni |last=Feresin |date=5 September 2018 |access-date=15 July 2019}} She died on 22 November 2019, aged 111.{{Cite web|url=https://ilpiccolo.gelocal.it/trieste/cronaca/2019/11/22/news/morta-nella-notte-cecilia-seghizzi-aveva-111-anni-1.37948048|title = Morta nella notte Cecilia Seghizzi: Aveva 111 anni|date = 22 November 2019}}
Selected works
- Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1963)
- By night flute, soprano and piano (1979)
- Concertino for horn and strings (1981)
- Divertimento for violin and piano (1982)
- Waltz for flute and piano (1984)
References
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Category:Women supercentenarians
Category:Italian supercentenarians
Category:Italian women painters
Category:20th-century Italian women artists
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