After the death of his wife he retired completely from guitar spheres but not from musical scenes, due to incoming illness. I consider this a masterpiece of the highest proportions. Gatti, who gave the first and second number of «Quaderni della Rassegna Musicale» published by Einaudi over to Petrassi no. Undoubtedly the estro musicale was destined to find its perfect form in a style of composition dependent on the balancing of intervals and timbres, in the technique of which Petrassi acquired a rare mastery, and his final works are like the coming together of various estri of reminiscence and different emotions. And it is precisely this capacity always to put the expressive ends first that gives an «unmistakably Petrassian» accent to all the materials that he decides to accommodate in his compositional laboratory.
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