Egisto Macchi
- Known for
- Sound
- Born
- August 4, 1938
- Died
- August 8, 1992 (aged 54)
- Birthplace
- Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Biography
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). ... Source: Article "Egisto Macchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Filmography
The World in Shots
Movie · Music
Bad Tales
Movie · Music
A Case of Mystery
Movie · Original Music Composer
Have a change of scene
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Rose Garden
Movie · Original Music Composer
A proposito di quella strana ragazza
Movie · Original Music Composer
Layla, Ma Raison
Movie · Original Music Composer
Una donna spezzata
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Le due croci
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mascara
Movie · Original Music Composer
Diary of a Mad Old Man
Movie · Original Music Composer
Havinck
Movie · Original Music Composer
La Milano di Achille Bertarelli
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le lunghe ombre
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Salomé
Movie · Original Music Composer
Five Lionni Classics
Movie · Original Music Composer
November Moon
Movie · Music
A Stone in the Mouth
Movie · Original Music Composer
Circle of Passions
Movie · Original Music Composer
Mora
Movie · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Le periferie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Il ventre della città
Movie · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Il fiume e la città
Movie · Original Music Composer
Capitali a confronto: Copenaghen
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Last Diva
Movie · Music
Het Beest
Movie · Music
Minuet
Movie · Music
Patto con la morte
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
Charlotte
Movie · Original Music Composer
Pol. Bru.
Movie · Music
The Truth on the Savolta Affair
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Woody Allen from Europe with Love
Movie · Music
L'educatore autorizzato
Movie · Original Music Composer
Volunteers for an Unknown Destination
Movie · Original Music Composer
La promessa
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Closed Circuit
Movie · Original Music Composer
Padre Padrone
Movie · Conductor, Original Music Composer
Mr. Klein
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
Il fratello
Movie · Original Music Composer
Ganga
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Movie · Original Music Composer, Conductor
The Time of the Beginning
Movie · Original Music Composer
Gli amici degli amici hanno saputo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Holidays
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Assassination of Matteotti
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Assassination of Trotsky
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il cancelliere Krehler
Movie · Music
Tre nel mille
Movie · Original Music Composer
L'attaccatura
Movie · Original Music Composer
Praised Be My Lord
Movie · Music
Gangsters '70
Movie · Original Music Composer
La ragazza di plastica
Movie · Original Music Composer
(A)lter (A)ction
Movie · Original Music Composer
L'Apparizione
Movie · Music
Il ricevimento
Movie · Original Music Composer
Esperienze in uno spazio non teatrale
Movie · Original Music Composer
Radiografia della miseria
Movie · Music
Bandidos
Movie · Original Music Composer
LSD Flesh of Devil
Movie · Original Music Composer
Essere capo
Movie · Original Music Composer
Cronache dell'eternità
Movie · Music
The Dress Rehearsal
Movie · Music
Brindisi '65
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il lagno
Movie · Original Music Composer
Being Women
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tommaso
Movie · Original Music Composer
Viaggio in Lucania
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il male di San Donato
Movie · Original Music Composer
Li mali mistieri
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il putto
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le finestre
Movie · Original Music Composer
On Sunday
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fazzoletti di terra
Movie · Original Music Composer
L' uomo e la maschera
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lotta contro i mostri
Movie · Original Music Composer
Avenger of the Seven Seas
Movie · Original Music Composer
Women of Devil's Island
Movie · Original Music Composer
To Arms, We Are Fascists!
Movie · Original Music Composer
Le nerte
Movie · Music
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Marshes' Chant
Movie · Original Music Composer
Divine Love
Movie · Original Music Composer
Fata Morgana
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il covo
Movie · Music
Maria's Days
Movie · Original Music Composer
Stendali (Still They Toll)
Movie · Original Music Composer
La croce
Movie · Music
Via Tasso
Movie · Original Music Composer
Il mago
Movie · Original Music Composer