Salvatore Sciarrino. Vanitas

The title of Salvatore Sciarrino's composition Vanitas. Natura morta in un atto, with its explicit reference to the context of "still life," already signals the interdisciplinary potential inherent in this work from 1981. The evident connections with art-historical themes suggest further interdisciplinary explorations of this composition. The piece is central to the Italian composer's oeuvre, as it radically realizes the dramaturgy inherent in Sciarrino's work. Written for voice, violoncello, and piano, the composition creates a scene with its music, linking the text fragments underlying the setting to the heyday of the vanitas theme in the Baroque era, while at the same time presenting itself as a complex and enigmatic system of compositional references.
This volume opens up a rich spectrum of approaches to Sciarrino's composition and places its theme of transience in an interdisciplinary framework. This includes questions of subject history as well as analytical approaches to the work and reflections on its place in the composer's creative context. The idea of vanitas is focused on and analyzed from musicological, literary, and art-historical perspectives. Salvatore Sciarrino's impressions of the genesis of his work and his comments on Vanitas—translated into German for the first time—round off the panorama of diverse approaches to this fascinating work.

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