ルカ・フランチェスコーニ（Luca Francesconi、 1956年 - ）は、イタリアの現代音楽の作曲家。現在はスウェーデンで教鞭を取る。

 略歴 
1996年に山口県に来日した時の自叙では「電子オルガンの伴奏屋からプロのジャズピアニストに転向し、ジャズのフュージョン化に疑問を感じてクラシックの音楽の勉強を一からやり直した」あとで、前衛音楽への道に入った。後にルチアーノ・ベリオの有力アシスタントとして勤務し、アツィオ・コルギ、カールハインツ・シュトックハウゼン他に師事。アゴン・アクスティカ・インフォマティカ・ムジカを創設し、テクノロジーと音楽との関係を探索。その努力は声楽とエレクトロニクスを使った作品「エティモ」に顕著である。

ドイツのダルムシュタットでクラーニヒシュタイン音楽賞を作曲部門で受賞し、1994年にジーメンス音楽賞若手対象奨励賞とイタリア賞を受賞して評価が確定する。早期に国外で仕事をした結果、当然母国よりも海外の支持が上回り、現在も多くの委嘱に答えている。2002年度には、2度目のイタリア賞を受賞する。

セリエルという楽語で表現するのを避けているが、彼の音楽も全ての素材がさまざまな比率の中で蠢く正嫡の現代音楽である。ヴァイオリンソロのための「デュオロン」では、冒頭に提示した音数と休符数の比率が徐々に楽曲を侵食する。しかし、クラシック音楽以外の音楽に詳しかったためか、彼の音楽は時として現代音楽のおとなしさを打破するほどの苛烈なパワーとスピードに満ちており、これは現在の作風にもいえることである。近年は視覚的要素を伴う大作の発表が多い。

主要作品
I Quartetto, per strings, 1977
Passacaglia per grande orchestra, 1982
Concertante per guitar and ensemble,Tanglewood 1982
Viaggiatore insonne per soprano and cinque strumenti (text by Sandro Penna), 1983
Notte per mezzosoprano and 19 instruments (text by Sandro Penna), 1983–1984
Suite 1984 per orchestra, African percussionists and jazz quintet with the Orchestra of the Ente Lirico di Cagliari, the Franco D'Andrea's band and Africa Djolé from Ivory Coast, directed by the composer, 1984
Finta-di-nulla per soprano and 19 instruments (text by Umberto Fiori), 1985
Onda sonante for 8 instruments, 1985
Vertige per string orchestra, 1985
Da capo for 9 instruments, 1985–1986
Encore/Da capo for 9 instruments, 1985–1995
Impulse II per clarinet, violin e piano, 1985, 1995
Al di là dell'oceano famoso, per 8 solo mixed voices, Netherland Radio Chamber Choir, 1985
Secondo quartetto (Mondriaan Quartet)
Tracce, per flute, 1985-1987
Plot in fiction per bassoon, English horn and 11 instruments, 1986
Respiro per trombone solo, 1987
Trama per saxophone and orchestra, 1987
Mambo, per pianoforte solo, 1987
Attesa per reed quartet, 1988
La voce, folk song per soprano and 13 instruments (text by Umberto Fiori), 1988
Aeuia per baritono and 11 instruments (based on a text by di Jacopone da Todi), 1989
Les barricades mystérieuses per flauto and orchestra, 1989
Piccola trama per saxophone and 8 instruments, 1989
Richiami II - 1° study on memory, 1989–1992
Memoria per orchestra, 1990
Secondo Concerto for bassoon and chamber orchestra, 1991
Mittel per five moving bands, 1991
Riti neurali, 3° study on memory per violin e 8 instruments, 1991
Islands concerto per piano and chamber orchestra, 1992
Miniature per 16 instruments, 1992
Voci per soprano, violin and magnetic tape (text by Umberto Fiori), 1992
Aria per wind octet, 1993
Plot II per saxophone and 15 instruments, 1993
Risonanze d'Orfeo, suite per wind orchestra from'Orfeo di Claudio Monteverdi, 1993
Trama II per clarinet, orchestra and live electronics, 1993
Terzo quartetto "Mirrors" per strings, Arditti Quartet, De Singel Antwerpen, 1994
Ballata del rovescio del mondo, radio-opera on texts by Umberto Fiori, 1994
Etymo per soprano, chamber orchestra andlive electronic, from Charles Baudelaire, commission by IRCAM per soprano, Ensemble InterContemporain, conductor Pascal Rophé, soprano Luisa Castellani, Klangregie by the composer,1994
A fuoco - 4° study on memory per guitar and ensemble, 1995
Animus per trombone and live electronics, 1995–1996
Inquieta limina. Un omaggio a Berio per ensemble with accordion, 1996
Venti Radio-Lied, radiofilms, texts by Umberto Fiori, with Moni Ovadia e Phillis Blanford1996–1997
Sirene/Gespenster, Heathen Oratorio per female quire in four cantorie, brasses, percussions and electronics, 1996–1997
Striaz, video-opera per 4 female quires and electronic, production Mittelfest/Video: Studio Azzurro, 1996
Ballata, opera, 1996–1999, text by Umberto Fiori from The Rhyme of an Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, commission by Théâtre de la Monnaie di Bruxelles, conductor Kazushi Ono per la stage director Achim Freyer
Respondit, due madrigals by Carlo Gesualdo transcripted and revised per 5 instruments with an electronic spacing, 1997
Lips, Eyes Bang, per actress/singer, 12 instruments, audio e video in real time, Amsterdam, Nieuw Ensemble, AGON, Studio Azzurro, STEIM, voice Phyllis Blandford, 1998.
Memoria II per orchestra, 1998
Wanderer per great orchestra, January 2000 Teatro alla Scala, Milano conductor Riccardo Muti, Filarmonica della Scala
Cobalt, Scarlet. Two Colours of Dawn per grande orchestra, 1999–2000
Terre del Rimorso, (finished in 2001), commissione d'État francese per soli, coro e orchestra, per il Festival di Strasburgo, 6 ottobre 2001, SWR Symphonie Orchester e Vokalensemble Stuttgart, direttore Péter Eötvös, 2000-2001
Aria Novella, per double quartet, Parigi, Ensemble Itinéraire, 2001
Let me Bleed, Requiem per Carlo Giuliani per mixed quire a cappella, on texts by Attilio Bertolucci, 2001 Swedish Radio Choir, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, RSO Stuttgart, Eötvös
Buffa opera texts by Stefano Benni, singer and actor Antonio Albanese, 2002
Controcanto, ensemble of 10 to 25 instruments, world premiere in Bruxelles, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Ensemble Ictus, conductor Georges-Elie Octors, 2003
Cello concerto "Rest" Quartetto d'archi di Torino, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Pierre Boulez, Roberto Abbado
Gesualdo Considered as a Murderer, opera, libretto by Vittorio Sermonti, 2004
Quarto Quartetto I voli di Niccolò, string quartet, commission by Paganiniana 2004, Genova, to Cesare Mazzonis, Arditti Quartet, 2004
Kubrick's Bone, per cimbalom and ensemble, 2005
Accordo reed quintet, Calefax, 2005
Body Electric, per violino and guitar rig e doppio ensemble, Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw, Orkest de Volharding e Doelen Ensemble, conductor Jussi Jaatinen, soloist Irvine Arditti, 2006
Sea Shell per great chorus, on a text by Alceo (translated by Salvatore Quasimodo). Swedish Radio Choir, Stoccolma, 2006
Da capo II, per 8 instruments, Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Ensemble Bit20, conductor J. Stockhammer, 2007
Animus II, per viola e live electronics, Parigi, Ircam Espace de projection, Festival Agora, soloist Garth Knox, commission by Françoise e Jean-Philippe 2007
Strade parallele, for 6 instruments, electronic and video on a text by Norberto Bobbio, Roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Ensemble Alter Ego, 2007
Hard Pace; per tromba e orchestra, Roma, Auditorium, Orchestra of Santa Cecilia Academy, soloist Håkan Hardenberger, conductor Antonio Pappano, 2007
Fresco, per cinque bande in movimento, 2007
Unexpected End of Formula, per violoncello, ensemble and elettronica, Koln, WDR FunkHaus, musikFabrik conductor Christian Eggen, soloist DirkWietheger, ZKM live-elektronik, 2008
Animus III, per tuba e live electronics, Colonia WDR FunkHaus, soloist Melvyn Poore, ZKM Live-Elektronik, 2008
Sirènes, per coro misto in five groups, orchestra and electronic, commission by Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2009
Time, Real and Imaginary, Commande d'État francese per mezzosoprano and four instruments on a text by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 2009
Attraverso, per soprano and ensemble, Monteverdi celebrations, commission by Music Across Festival of Regione Lombardia and Teatro Ponchielli of Cremona, 2009
Jeu de Musica, per ensemble, Strasbourg, Festival Musica, 2010
Quartett, opera, libretto iwritten in English by the composer, from the pièce by Heiner Müller, commission by Teatro alla Scala, stage direction by La Fura dels Baus, conductor Susanna Mälkki, 2011
Terra, opera-oratorio, libretto by Valeria Parrella, opening of the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Italian Republic, Naples, Teatro San Carlo, stage director Jean Kalman, conductor Jonathan Webb, 2011
Herzstück, based on a text by Heiner Müller, commission by Neue Vocalsolisten for the Eclat Festival, 2012
Atopia, oratorio based on text by Piero della Francesca and Calderón della Barca, Madrid, 2012
Piano Concerto, per pianoforte and orchestra, with Nicolas Hodges, Oporto 2013
Duende, The Dark Notes, con Leila Josefowicz, coproduction of Swedish Radio, RAI, BBC Proms, 2014
Dentro non ha tempo, for large orchestra, in memoriam of Luciana Pestalozza, commission by Teatro alla Scala, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, 2014
Vertical Invader, concerto grosso for reed quintet and orchestra, Calefax Reed Quintet, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and Concertgebouw di Amsterdam, Radio Filharmonisch Orkest conducted by Osmo Vänskä, 2015.
Bread, Water and Salt, Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, conductor Antonio Pappano, soprano Pumeza Matshikiza