Franco Evangelisti

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Franco Evangelisti (born January 21, 1926 in Rome , † January 28, 1980 ibid) was an Italian composer , improvisation musician and music theorist.

life and work

Evangelisti studied composition with Daniele Paris in Rome and with Harald Genzmer at the Freiburg University of Music ; Between 1952 and 1960 he regularly took part in the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music . At the invitation of Herbert Eimert , he worked in 1956 in the studio for electronic music of the WDR in Cologne. Hermann Scherchen invited him to the UNESCO Studio of Experimental Electroacoustics in Gravesano in 1957 . In 1958 he inaugurated the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw together with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono , where he held seminars on electronic music the following year . Together with Francesco Pennisi and Aldo Clementi , he founded the Nuova Consonanza association in Rome in 1960 , which organized concerts and festivals.

As a radical supporter of serialism , he was increasingly skeptical of post-serial composing, which he regarded as restorative. He therefore decided in 1962 to give up composing in favor of a more scientific work on a system of "syntactic and tonal redesign". In 1964 he also founded the improvisation ensemble Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza with Ennio Morricone and other composers . After working in Berlin , he was appointed to the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome as a lecturer.

Evangelisti's work as a composer comprises, apart from the collective improvisations, only a little more than a dozen compositions. Although his music has lost none of its artistic topicality in its haunting, nervous yet mysterious sound, as well as in the extensive use of electronic recordings - especially for the music theater composition Die Schachtel (1962-63) and the Cinque strutture derived from it - it was Hardly present in concert life until a few years ago, but is currently being rediscovered and performed.

Compositions

  • Quattro fattoriale (4!) , Piccoli pezzi per violino e pianoforte (1954-1955)
  • Ordini , strutture variate per 16 strumenti (1955)
  • Proiezioni sonore , strutture per pianoforte, (1955-1956)
  • Incontri di fasce sonore , composizione elettronica (1956-1957)
  • Proporzioni , strutture per flauto solo (1958)
  • Aleatorio , per quartetto d'archi (1959)
  • Spazio a 5 per 4 gruppi di percussione, voci e accorgimenti elettronici (1959-1961)
  • Random or not Random , appunti degli anni 1957-1962 per orchestra (1962)
  • Campi integrati n.2 , giuoco per 9 strumenti (1959-1979)
  • The box , azione mimoscenica per mimi, proiezioni, orchestra da camera su soggetto di Franco Nonnis (1962-1963)

Theoretical writings (selection)

  • Verso una composizione elettronica. Rapporto tra mezzi e individuo nel suo tempo , in "Ordini. Studi sulla nuova musica", 1 ( 1959 ), n. 1, pp. 48-53.
  • Espacio para la musica. Espacio y musica. Espacio en la musica. Espacio es musica , in "Acento cultural", Madrid , III ( 1961 ), n. 14 supp. 35-36, pp. 47-56.
  • For a new form of electronic composition , in AA.VV., "Römische Reden. Ten Years of the German Library Rome / Goethe Institute 1955-1965", Munich, 1965, pp. 114–116.
  • Applicazione di elettroacustica. Musica elettronica aleatoria , in "Duemila", Il ( 1966 ), n.6, pp. 77-79.
  • Composers improvise as a collective , in "Melos", XXXIII (1966), pp. 86–88.
  • The musical futurism. Studies on valuation research , (contribution in) O. Kolleritsch, Graz 1976 , pp. 114–120.
  • Dal silenzio a un nuovo mondo sonoro (1979), Semar, Rome 1991. German translation as "From silence to a new world of sound" in: Musik-Konzept 43/44 Franco Evangelisti , ed. by Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn, Munich (edition text + kritik) 1985, pp. 40–168.

Discography

  • Incontri di fasce sonore , frammento su disco, con la conferencea di Hans Wilhelm Kulenkampff Where does contemporary music stand? (A che punto è la musica contemporanea?), Bärenreiter Musicaphon BM 30 LK 1841/42.
  • Proporzioni , with Severino Gazzelloni , flute . Testo di copertina di David Berman, Mainstream Ms / 50 14.
  • Die Schachtel , soloists of the Munich Chamber Opera under Eberhard Schoener , Bayerischer Rundfunk DGG Avantgarde 2561 106.
  • Franco Evangelisti: Proiezioni sonore; Incontri di fasce sonore; Aleatorio; Spazio a 5; Random or not random; Cinque strutture; Proporzioni; Quattro fattoriale; Ordini; Campi integrati n. 2; The chess. Various interpreters - edition RZ CD ed. RZ 1011-12

With the Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza

  • Doo Avantgarde 137007, (1969)
  • RcA Italiana MLDS 20243 (1970)
  • General Music D ZSLGE 55491, (1973)
  • Cinevox Record Sc 33/44 Sc 14, (1975)
  • Cramps Records (Nova Musicha n.9) CRSLP 6109, (1976)
  • The feed-hack, RCA Italiana P5L 10466, (1977)
  • Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza RZ 1009 (2001)

literature

  • Christine Anderson. Composing between series, aleatoric and improvisation. Franco Evangelistis search for a new world of sound (sinefonia vol. 17). Hofheim: cloud 2012.
  • Giordano Ferrari. "'Die Schachtel' di Franco Evangelisti: tra suono e immagine, un'avanguardia del teatro musicale degli anni Sessanta" in: Musica / Realtà 49 , 17th year, Lucca, March 1996, pp. 71-86.
  • Heinz-Klaus Metzger and Rainer Riehn (eds.). Music Concepts 43/44. Franco Evangelisti . Munich: edition text + kritik 1985.
  • Harald Muenz (ed.). towards a new world. Notes on Franco Evangelisti . With contributions by Christine Anderson , Giordano Ferrari , Hans G Helms , Gottfried Michael Koenig , Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Harald Muenz , Antonio Trudu and Thorsten Wagner . Saarbrücken: Pfau 2002.
  • Daniela Tortora:  EVANGELIST, Franco. In: Fiorella Bartoccini (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 43:  Enzo – Fabrizi. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1993.
  • Thorsten Wagner. Franco Evangelisti and the improvisation group Nuova Consonanza. On the phenomenon of improvisation in the new music of the sixties . Saarbrücken: Pfau 2004.