Komponieren zwischen Reihe, Aleatorik und Improvisation

Franco Evangelisti (1926-80) was an uncomfortable contemporary: relentless in his open criticism of the music business, uncompromising in his compositional decisions, restless in his efforts to improve the situation of new music in Italy. In 1964, at the age of only 38, he interrupted his compositional work to write a book that conjured up the utopia of a new world of sound. By then, he had created a few highly concentrated works within ten years, which confronted his musicians and his audience with the limits of their listening expectations: with noise sounds, with silence, with free improvisation.

After his silence as a composer, Evangelisti worked tirelessly as an organizer of new music. By founding concert series, festivals and magazines in Rome and Palermo, he gave new music in Italy a voice that was recognized far beyond the country's borders. The group he founded, Nuova Consonanza, became a model for numerous ensembles engaged in guided improvisation. His untimely death in 1980 also contributed to the creation of a legend.

Evangelisti's compositional works between 1954 and 1964 are regarded as highly concentrated miniatures full of enigmas. After studying the compositional sketches, the genesis of these enigmatic works can now be revealed in detail. Evangelisti's path from serial composition to aleatoric approaches to guided group improvisation, his struggle for aesthetic independence, can thus be traced. Supplemented by numerous letters and documents from Italian and German archives, a picture emerges of a multi-faceted composer personality of European stature.

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