SEGHIZZI, Cecilia

Cecilia Seghizzi (5 September 1908 – 22 November 2019) was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian. Her music catalog included more than 130 compositions, among which many are choral music. She also composed a number of pieces for voice and piano, a range of chamber music compositions, a concert for flute, clarinet and strings, as well as pieces for piano, including didactic pieces like Impressioni.

It is in choral music that she used sonorities and driving rhythms, humorous and light swings the most. In this her work is similar to that of Alfredo Casella, Paul Hindemith, and Giulio Viozzi. Her very conservative style, is linked to neo-classicism. However, some of her choral pieces, based on poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, follow a more impressionistic style, and some of her instrumental music experiment with the limits of tonal harmony, as her trio Notte.