Talk:Giacinto Scelsi

Pun or typo
horiztonal

Is this a pun or a typo? RodC

asterisks in the list of works?
The asterisks seem to be carried over from the info at, namely in reference to what publisher sells the scores. Is this necessary information?

Scelsi's influence/legacy
I think Scelsi's influence on Spectralist composers such as Tristan Murail should be mentioned. (especially works like Quattro pezzi su una nota sola)


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Merge: List of works
I think the list of works is long enough not to be merged into this article. Hyacinth 00:15, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It would dwarf the text here. Perhaps somebody could collect a few of the most notable and list them here, but I think the full list should be its own page. Rigadoun (talk) 15:42, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

Date of death
One source I know of claims he died on the 8th, not the 9th. What do other sources say? Toccata quarta (talk) 09:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Both dates are widely quoted. My understanding, though I don't have a source to hand to back this up, is that the number 8 had some sort of mystical significance for Scelsi, so myth-makers are attracted to the idea that he could have died on the date 8.8.88, but in fact he survived into the 9th. With this composer it can be particularly difficult separating myth from fact.  --Deskford (talk) 10:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)


 * He died during the night between both dates and never saw the light of day on the 9th. For the ancient Romans, days began at dawn, not at midnight as is our modern Western custom. So, even though technically he was still breathing into the earliest hours of August 9th according to our dating customs, in a sense, it can be said that he died on the 8th. The date 8.8.88 did certainly have a deep significance for him. He had in fact predicted he would "depart this world when the 8s align", and that date was effectively the last of his conscious life. How he knew about that, or if it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy, is anyone's guess. I could dig up the references where all this is talked about, if people think it worthy of being included in the article. Uaxuctum (talk) 13:28, 7 March 2013 (UTC)


 * Both the "real" date and the "myth" should be included, provided the latter has references. 64.85.243.248 (talk) 21:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)

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