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Giovanna Sterburina (Jezerce, Croàcia, 1949 - San Gimignano, Itàlia, 1985) was a contemporary classical music composer of the second half of XX century.

She was born on a artistic family (her mother was an sculptur and her father an harpist) who introduced her in a early age to music. She learned to play the viola and piano and was forward on composition, at the age of 7 she had already finished her first work for solo viola. Due to the death of her mother on 1962, she fell into a deep depression and spent, during 2 years, a plenty of time on her mother's studio. When this period on her life ends, she starts a new phase leaded by the trips around Europe. Thanks of that, she meets Scelsi (her principal musical influence although the style differences) and his friends circle. Because of her mental health deterioration mainly affected by the schizophrenia, she retorns to the town where she grew up and dies there at the age of 36.

Her style is orchestran, she searches  to exploit the instrumental resources and the timbric qualities. She uses the motivic repetition, transposition, inversions, retrogradation and development.

Work

 * Pastorale et ucelli (1956), solo viola
 * Sonata for arpa, viola, trumpet and percussion (1962)
 * Suite for solo viola (1966)
 * Sonata for piano (1969)
 * Suite for piano and piano harp (1972)
 * Viola and orchestra Concerto (1978)
 * Simfonia num.1 "Canticum" (1985)