Egisto Macchi
Egisto Macchi (4 August 1938 – 8 August 1992) was an Italian composer.
Born in Grosseto, Macchi moved to Rome to study composition, piano, violin and singing with Roman Vlad (1946–51) and Hermann Scherchen (1949–54), among others. It was around this period that he also studied literature and human physiology at La Sapienza University.
From the late fifties, he began his collaboration with a group of musicians (Franco Evangelisti, Domenico Guaccero and Daniele Paris), to whom he was bound by intense friendship. Together with Domenico Guaccero, Daniele Paris and Antonino Titone, he was one of the editors of the magazine Orders, which first appeared in 1959. With Bertoncini, Bortolotti, Clementi, De Blasio, Evangelisti, Guaccero, Paris, Pennisi, and Franco Norris, he founded the Association of New Consonance in 1960. He made a frequent hand at directing the association, and he held the office of President from 1980 to 1982, and also in 1989.
From the day of its conception, he followed the activity of the International Week of New Music in Palermo. After creating the Musical Theatre of Rome with Guaccero, he founded Studio R7, an experimental, electronic music laboratory born in 1967. It is in the same year that he joined Franco Evangelisti's Gruppo di Improvvisazione di Nuova Consonanza, an avant garde improvisation group that also recruited Macchi's close friend and collaborator Ennio Morricone.
In 1978, he was part of the Italian commission for the music of UNICEF, together with Luis Bacalov, Franco Evangelisti, Ennio Morricone and Nino Rota.
In 1983, he created, together with Guaccero, the Institute of Voice, seeking to deal with problems related to vocal work in the field of classical music and folk music of all continents. The institute made use of new technologies in the field of electronics and cybernetics. He took over the direction of the institute after the death of his friend in 1984.
Further initiatives followed. In 1984 he became one of the founders of I.R.T.E.M (Institute of Research for Musical Theatre), together with Paola Bernardi, Carlo Marinelli and Ennio Morricone. In this context he also founded the Sound Archive for Contemporary Music, of which he was the director until his death. It is with the Sound Archive that he created a series of conferences, meetings and seminars for the knowledge and diffusion of contemporary music.
In his last years, he had been working with Ennio Morricone to promote the 'New Opera'. In November 1991 he completed La Bohème, a transcription for sixteen instruments and four synthesizers, and Morricone similarly adapted Tosca. Both works were ready to be staged when Macchi died in 1992.
Macchi described his music as Dionysian and he credited this to a profound period of loss and despair: "[I experienced a] time of loss... But it was only a moment, though that lasted almost a year: a moment of silence and despair. Today I found the strength to walk" (to Titone on December 23, 1957: Titone 1980, 161). Such a feeling of rebirth is evident in the earlier work Composizione (1958) for chamber orchestra in which sounds flow from silence in the frame of a "process narrative" (Titone 1980, 43). ...
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Movies (84)
The World in Shots
2021 · Music
Bad Tales
2020 · Music
A Case of Mystery
1990 · Original Music Composer
The Rose Garden
1989 · Original Music Composer
A proposito di quella strana ragazza
1989 · Original Music Composer
Layla, Ma Raison
1989 · Original Music Composer
Le due croci
1988 · Original Music Composer
Havinck
1987 · Original Music Composer
La Milano di Achille Bertarelli
1987 · Original Music Composer
Mascara
1987 · Original Music Composer
Diary of a Mad Old Man
1987 · Original Music Composer
Salomé
1986 · Original Music Composer
Five Lionni Classics
1986 · Original Music Composer
November Moon
1985 · Music
A Stone in the Mouth
1983 · Original Music Composer
Circle of Passions
1983 · Original Music Composer
Mora
1982 · Original Music Composer
Minuet
1982 · Music
Capitali a confronto: Le periferie
1982 · Original Music Composer
Het Beest
1982 · Music
Capitali a confronto: Il ventre della città
1982 · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Il fiume e la città
1982 · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Copenaghen
1982 · Original Music Composer
The Last Diva
1982 · Music
Charlotte
1981 · Original Music Composer
The Truth on the Savolta Affair
1980 · Original Music Composer
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
1980 · Music
Pol. Bru.
1980 · Music
L'educatore autorizzato
1980 · Original Music Composer
Volunteers for an Unknown Destination
1979 · Original Music Composer
Closed Circuit
1978 · Original Music Composer
Padre Padrone
1977 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Mr. Klein
1976 · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Il fratello
1975 · Original Music Composer
Ganga
1975 · Original Music Composer
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974 · Conductor, Original Music Composer
The Time of the Beginning
1974 · Original Music Composer
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973 · Original Music Composer
Gli amici degli amici hanno saputo
1973 · Original Music Composer
Holidays
1973 · Original Music Composer
The Assassination of Trotsky
1972 · Original Music Composer
Il cancelliere Krehler
1972 · Music
Tre nel mille
1971 · Original Music Composer
L'attaccatura
1971 · Original Music Composer
Praised Be My Lord
1969 · Music
Esperienze in uno spazio non teatrale
1968 · Original Music Composer
Il ricevimento
1968 · Original Music Composer
(A)lter (A)ction
1968 · Original Music Composer
L'Apparizione
1968 · Music
Gangsters '70
1968 · Original Music Composer
La ragazza di plastica
1968 · Original Music Composer
The Dress Rehearsal
1967 · Music
Bandidos
1967 · Original Music Composer
Essere capo
1967 · Original Music Composer
Cronache dell'eternità
1967 · Music
LSD Flesh of Devil
1967 · Original Music Composer
Radiografia della miseria
1967 · Music
Il lagno
1966 · Original Music Composer
Brindisi '65
1966 · Original Music Composer
Tommaso
1965 · Original Music Composer
Viaggio in Lucania
1965 · Original Music Composer
Being Women
1965 · Original Music Composer
Il male di San Donato
1965 · Original Music Composer
Li mali mistieri
1964 · Original Music Composer
L' uomo e la maschera
1963 · Original Music Composer
On Sunday
1963 · Original Music Composer
Lotta contro i mostri
1963 · Original Music Composer
Il putto
1963 · Original Music Composer
Le finestre
1963 · Original Music Composer
Fazzoletti di terra
1963 · Original Music Composer
Women of Devil's Island
1962 · Original Music Composer
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
1962 · Original Music Composer
Avenger of the Seven Seas
1962 · Original Music Composer
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
1962 · Original Music Composer
Le nerte
1962 · Music
Il covo
1961 · Music
Divine Love
1961 · Original Music Composer
The Marshes' Chant
1961 · Original Music Composer
Fata Morgana
1961 · Original Music Composer
Stendali (Still They Toll)
1960 · Original Music Composer
Maria's Days
1960 · Original Music Composer
Via Tasso
1960 · Original Music Composer
La croce
1960 · Music
Il mago
1959 · Original Music Composer
