Franco Evangelisti (composer)
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Franco Evangelisti (January 21, 1926 – January 28, 1980) was an Italian
composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...
specifically interested in the scientific theories behind sound.


Biography

Born in Rome, Evangelisti abandoned engineering studies in order to dedicate himself to musical composition. In 1948 he became a composition student of Daniele Paris in Rome, where he also studied piano with Erich Arndt. In 1952 he moved to Germany, where he pursued advanced composition studies with Harald Genzmer at the
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. Starting in 1952 he took part in the
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, where he had the opportunity of meeting Werner Meyer-Eppler of the University of Bonn, thanks to which he began to be interested in
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. At the invitation of Herbert Eimert, in 1956–57 he worked in the electronic studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne. In 1957, the orchestral conductor Hermann Scherchen invited him to work in the Studio of Experimental Electroacoustics of
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in Gravesano, where he became involved with
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and explored the possibility of directly translating brain impulses into sonic vibrations. In 1960, together with other musicians such as Francisco Pennisi and Aldo Clementi, he founded the Nuova Consonanza association and, in 1964, the
improvisation Improvisation, often shortened to improv, is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means un-foreseen. Improvis ...
group of the same name. In 1980, after nearly twenty years' work, he finished his book ''Dal silenzio a un nuovo mondo sonoro'' (From Silence to a New Sonorous World), which has come to be regarded as "an important record of one of the most radical minds of the Italian postwar avant garde". He died in Rome on 28 January 1980.


Compositions (selective list)

* Concerto, for cello and orchestra (1953) * ''La terra ha sete di pianto'', for soprano and piano (1953) * ''Quattro fattoriale (4!)'', little pieces for violin and piano (1954–55) * ''Ordini'', for 16 instruments (1955) * ''Due conversari'', for oboe, strings, and percussion (1954–56) * ''Proiezioni sonore'', for piano (1955–56) * ''Incontri di fasce sonore'', electronic composition (1956–57) * ''Random or Not Random'', for orchestra (1956–62) * ''Proporzioni'', structures for solo flute (1958) * ''Aleatorio'', for string quartet (1959) *''Spazio a cinque'', for voices, 5 percussionists, and electronics (1959–61) * ''Campi integrati no. 2'', game for 9 instruments (1959–79) * ''Condensazioni'', for orchestra (1960–62) * ''Die Schachtel'' (The Box), pantomime, for mimes, projections, and chamber orchestra, on a text by Franco Nonnis (1962–63) * ''Campi integrati no. 2'', game for nine instruments (1959–79)


Publications

* ''Dal silenzio a un nuovo mondo sonoro'', Franco Evangelisti, Roma: Semar 1991.


References

Sources *


Further reading

* Anderson, Christine. 2013. ''Komponieren zwischen Reihe, Aleatorik und Improvisation: Franco Evangelistis Suche nach einer neuen Klangwelt''. Sinefonia 18. Hofheim: Wolke Verlag. (pbk). * Evangelisti, Franco, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn, Giacinto Scelsi, Dieter Schnebel, and Claudio Annibaldi. 1985. ''Franco Evanglisti''. Musik-Konzepte 43/44, edited by Heinz-Klaus Metzger und Rainer Riehn. Munich: Text + Kritik. . * Muenz, Harald (ed.). 2002. ''—hin zu einer neuen Welt: Notate zu Franco Evangelisti''. Saarbrücken: Pfau. . * Müller, Heinzjörg, and Sigrid Konrad (eds.). 2005. ''Die Schachtel, Tanz mir das Lied vom Tod: Ballettabend von Marguerite Donlon zu Musik von Franco Evangelisti und Ennio Morricone: Materialien zur Inszenierung des Saarländischen Staatstheaters und des Théâtre national du Luxembourg''. Schriftenreihe Netzwerk Musik Saar 5. Saarbrücken: Pfau. (pbk). * Wagner, Thorsten. 2004. ''Franco Evangelisti und die Improvisationsgruppe Nuova Consonanza: zum Phänomen Improvisation in der neuen Musik der sechziger Jahre''. Saarbrücken: Pfau. (pbk.) * D. Schnebel, ''Die andere Musik. Nachruf auf Franco Evangelisti'', Musik-Konzepte, Monaco, 43/44, 1985, p. 7 * Alessandro Sbordoni, ''Le "fasce sonore" di Franco Evangelisti'', in Laboratorio musica, Milano, II, (1980), n.1. pp.72-73 {{DEFAULTSORT:Evangelisti, Franco 1926 births 1980 deaths Composers from Rome 20th-century Italian classical composers 20th-century male composers Italian male classical composers Hochschule für Musik Freiburg alumni Twelve-tone and serial composers 20th-century Italian male musicians