Berio-Linea-V/M/2PN

Linea was composed in 1973 for piano duo, vibraphone and marimba. It is a substantial work that requires extreme musicality and musical awareness. This includes the score only. The score is bound to allow for easy separation and preparation for performance.

Number of Players: 4
Difficulty: Grade 6
Instrumentation:

Player I: Vibraphone

Player II: Piano 1

Player III: Piano 2

Player IV: Marimba

Luciano Berio is a renown Italian composer of stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, piano, and electroacoustic works that have been performed very successfully across the world, and that have been widely recorded.
Mr. Berio studied initially with his grandfather Adolfo and father Ernesto, who were both organists and composers, and he quickly developed an interest in the piano. In 1944, he was summoned for military service, and suffered a hand injury that ended his career as a pianist. After the war, he studied counterpoint with Giulio Cesare Paribeni and composition with Giorgio Federico Ghedini at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan from 1946-51, followed by a Koussevitzky Foundation scholarship, which allowed him to receive lessons in serialism from Luigi Dallapiccola at Tanglewood in 1952.