Carlo Alessandro Landini

Carlo Alessandro Landini began his musical studies in the piano and composition classes of the Milan Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi", under the guidance of Piero Rattalino and Bruno Bettinelli respectively, graduating in 1978 and 1979.

However, his interests did not limit themselves to the sole field of music but led him to graduate in 1982 in Modern Literature, with a dissertation[1] dedicated to the Capuchin nun Saint Veronica Giuliani, a text later on revised and published in the form of a more extensive essay.

[6] Appointed at Columbia University (New York) in 2003, he works with Jonathan Kramer, attending Fred Lerdahl’s lessons, thus investigating the modelling of tension and relaxation in pitch-space.

[22][23] The "mammoth"[24] score of this huge work (dedicated to the Genoese pianist Massimiliano Damerini) consists of 650 pages and has been defined a "massage of the body and mind"[25] pretending to give the listener "hours of reflection, rest, well-being".

The cultural sphere in which his music moves is, as the musicologist Renzo Cresti states, "closely linked to the Middle-European one, expanded to the ancient Greek-Latin civilization", such as to situate Landini "a thousand miles away from a volatile communication that doesn't convey anything meaningful: the composer ends up being obsessed with a subtle chisel work that digs and deepens, like a spiral that plunges into the meanders of being".