Composer · b. 1972
Alessandro Kirschner
Biography
Alessandro Kirschner (born 1972) is a composer whose choral works are featured on Ensemble del Giglio’s Quando Canto. His Trittico italiano (2000) sets poetry by Umberto Saba and Salvatore Quasimodo. Benedetto sia ’l giorno (2019), on a sonnet by Petrarch, combines mixed choir, accordion and clarinet. The triptych explores contrasts between joy and pain through tonal and diatonic writing, imitation and changing vocal textures.