Maria Gabriella Mariani
Pianist composer and writer
“The Grandioso was truly grandioso, and in the subsequent Cantabile she made the piano sing. An interpretative vision as solid as if carved in stone.”
Latest release
Suonare Records
I. Casa Schumann. A Dialogue for Three Voices: Robert, Clara and Johannes Brahms
Issue 341 of Suonare News , October 2026, offers a previously unreleased recording by the pianist and composer Maria Gabriella Mariani, centred on one of the crucial junctures of nineteenth-century piano literature: the aesthetic and biographical bond between Robert Schumann, Clara Wieck and Johannes Brahms. The progra...
II. In concert
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Casa Schumann. A Dialogue in Three Voices: Robert, Clara and Johannes
MaMu Magazzino Musica, Via Francesco Soave 3, Milan, 6 pm. Maria Gabriella Mariani, piano, with Filippo Michelangeli.
III. From the press
Willem Boone
De Nieuwe Muze
The moment she sat at the grand piano to play a few passages from Liszt's Sonata in B minor, she turned into a veritable tigress. […] The Grandioso was truly grandioso, and in the subsequent Cantabile she made the piano sing. […] An interpretative vision as solid as if carved in stone.
Rob Challinor
MusicWeb International
The turbulent rolling accompaniment of the first romance perfectly complements the melody, restless and yearning, a quality that Ms Mariani captures well. […] I particularly like the juxtaposition of the Romances with Faschingsschwank aus Wien.
Andrea Bedetti
Music Voice
«To purify from defacement» seems to be Mariani's artistic motto — revealing on the surface what was already there, opening where there was once wrongful closure. […] Giovanni Caruso's recording captures Mariani's Steinway with crystalline clarity.
IV. Catalogue of works
The scores and the books. Several titles answer one another across the catalogue: a piece has its story, and a story its piece.
They answer one another
- I racconti di Dora e Lucia Kinderliana
- I sogni della ragione non generano mostri Pour jouer
- Ologramma Hologram [Ologramma]
- Riflessi Mediterranea
- Consonanze imperfette Fun-Tango
V. Listen and watch
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Prokofiev, Sonata No. 2 Op. 14 — live
A live performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Sonata No. 2 Op. 14.
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Prokofiev, Visions fugitives No. 10 — encore
A recital encore: the tenth of the «Visions fugitives» Op. 22.
VI. Full biography
A precocious talent, she began improvising at the piano at the age of three, revealing extraordinary creativity and musical aptitude from early childhood. A representative of the Neapolitan Piano School, she received her fundamental technical and musical grounding from Aldo Tramma. Under his guidance she made her debut at thirteen at the Amalfi International Festival, at the invitation of the school's leading figure Vincenzo Vitale , and at fourteen she w…