Teresa Rampazzi

Teresa Rampazzi née Teresa Rossi (31 October 191416 December 2001) was an Italian pianist and composer who was a pioneer of electronic and computer generated music. Biography Teresa Rampazzi was born in Vicenza, Italy, and studied piano as a child, then continued her studies at the Milan Conservatory and graduated with a diploma in piano in 1933. During these conservatory years, she met Severino Gazzelloni, René Leibowitz, Franco Donatoni who became close friends. She married and lived for a while in Vicenza until 1948, Venice until 1959, and Verona. In 1955 she moved with her husband to Padua where she became a member of the Trio Bartók and the Circolo Pozzetto music ensembles. Rampazzi developed an interest in avant-garde music and attended the Ferienkurse Darmstadt during the 1950s where she heard a frequency generator for the first time in her life, introduced by Herbert Eimert. In February 1959 John Cage arrived in Padova (during one of his first journeys in Italy) and Teresa Rampazzi gave a concert with him and with Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Sylvano Bussotti. They played Music for Piano, Winter Music, Variations I & II, Music Walk. Later she sold her piano and with Ennio Chiggi