Hoch Francesco Campo dei Fiori 9
CH-6942 Savosa (TI)
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Genre: Classical Music
Professional activity: Composers
Biography
* 14. 02. 1943.
Francesco Hoch was born in Lugano and studied for his diploma in composition under Franco Donatoni and singing under Ada Jesi at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he also studied conducting under Franco Caracciolo, Mario Gusella and electronic music under Angelo Paccagnini. He attended courses in composition in Darmstadt with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gyorgy Ligeti and in Padua with Sylvano Bussotti and Domenico Guaccero. He has composed since 1968. He now teaches and writes about contemporary music on a freelance basis. He is a founder member of 'OGGImusica', an association for contemporary music based in Lugano. He lives and teaches music in the canton of Tessin.
He has won the following prizes:
1975 - Primo Premio 'Angelicum', Milano
1976 - Prize 'Pro Arte', Bern
1991 - Prize of the Anniversary foundation of the UBS bank
1995/96 - Prize 'Kammersprechchor Zürich' and EPTA-ESTA
Francesco Hoch has composed around eighty works for orchestra, voice, choir, for the stage and with electronic, they are published by 'EDIZIONI SUVINI ZERBONI' in Milan.
Work list
Testo da consumare (1968)
Instrumentation: for eight instruments (cl.bn/hn.tbn/2vn.va.vc) and four speakers
Texts: Gilberto Isella
Text: Gilberto Isella.
Duration: 14' 00" Manuscript
Dis/Integrazioni (1968-1969)
Instrumentation: for string orchestra
Duration: 12' 00" Manuscript
1969 (1969)
Quintet
Instrumentation: for clarinet, saxophone, trombone, double bass and percussion
Duration: 9' 00" Manuscript
Prove concertanti (1970)
Instrumentation: for six instrumental groups (2.1.1.1/2.2.0.0/2perc/str)
Duration: 12' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Caleidoscopio I (1970)
Instrumentation: for a minimum of nine instruments
Duration: 10' 00" Manuscript
Sogno geologico (1970-1971)
Instrumentation: for electronic band
Duration: 9' 00" Manuscript
à la recherche de... et à la... (1971)
Instrumentation: for three violins, viola and cello
Duration: 9' 00"
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Caleidoscopio II (1971)
Instrumentation: for between eight and eighteen instruments
Duration: 9' 00" Manuscript
Au Futur-Passé? (1971)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (3.3.3.2/3.2.3.3/perc/10.10.6.6.4)
Duration: 16' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Dune (1972)
Instrumentation: for violin, cello, piano, two percussionists, two voices
Duration: 8' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
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C'è Karl e Karl (1972)
Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano
Duration: 10' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
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Idra (1973)
Instrumentation: for eleven strings
Duration: 13' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Riflessioni sulla natura di alcuni vocaboli (1972-1974)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (2.2.2.2/2.2.2.0/12.0.4.4.4)
Duration: 16' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Agli spettatori (1974)
Instrumentation: for children's choir
Texts: Francesco Hoch
Text: Francesco Hoch.
Duration: 7' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
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L'oggetto disincantato - storia di un'analisi (1974)
Instrumentation: for thirteen instruments (fl.ob.cl.bn/hn.tpt.tbn/pf.hpd/2vn.vc.db)
Duration: 12' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Plumages - schizzi (1975)
Instrumentation: for two violins and viola
Duration: 10' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
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Arcano (1975-1976)
Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir
Texts: Karl Marx (Francesco Hoch)
Text: Francesco Hoch (from Karl Marx).
Duration: 12' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Trasparenza per nuovi Elementi (1976)
Instrumentation: for ten instruments (fl.ob.cl.bcl/perc/pf/vn.va.vc.db)
Duration: 15' 00"
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Elemento (1976)
Instrumentation: for double-bass
Duration: 11' 00"
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Elemento (1977)
Instrumentation: for oboe
Duration: 6' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
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Figura esposta - Interazione di cinque elementi (1977)
Instrumentation: for twenty instrumentalists (1.1.2.1/2.2.1.0/2perc/hpd.hp/2.0.1.1.1)
Duration: 10' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Figura senza nome (1978)
Instrumentation: for female voice, flute, oboe, violin, clarinet and percussion
Duration: 2' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Spurlos - appunti per catalogo (1978)
Instrumentation: for two flutes, two clarinets, two oboes, two bassoons and two horns
Duration: 24' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
Metafigure (1978-1979)
Instrumentation: for twelve instruments (1.0.1.sx.1/2.2.0.1/hndorg/2perc)
Duration: 10' 00"
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Galleria del Corso 4 I-20122 Milano
... a distanza ... - solo, duo, trio, quartetto (1979)
Instrumentation: for flute in G, English horn, clarinet and viola