Biography
Egisto Macchi (4 August 1928 – 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.
Filmography
all 93
Movies 90
TV Shows 3
The World in Shots (2021)
Bad Tales (2020)
Lo schermo a tre punte (1995)
A Case of Mystery (1990)
The Rose Garden (1989)
A proposito di quella strana ragazza (1989)
Layla, Ma Raison (1989)
Una donna spezzata (1988)
Le due croci (1988)
Cambiamento d'aria (1988)
Havinck (1987)
La Milano di Achille Bertarelli (1987)
Mascara (1987)
Diary of a Mad Old Man (1987)
Elettra (1987)
Le lunghe ombre (1987)
The Malady of Love (1986)
Salomé (1986)
Mussolini and I (1985)
Partenaires (1984)
A Stone in the Mouth (1983)
Circle of Passions (1983)
Mora (1982)
Minuet (1982)
Capitali a confronto: Le periferie (1982)
Het Beest (1982)
Capitali a confronto: Il ventre della città (1982)
Capitali a confronto: Il fiume e la città (1982)
Capitali a confronto: Copenaghen (1982)
Patto con la morte (1982)
The Shadow of the Earth (1982)
The Last Diva (1982)
Charlotte (1981)
The Truth on the Savolta Affair (1980)
La promessa (1979)
Volunteers for an Unknown Destination (1979)
Closed Circuit (1978)
Il processo (1978)
Padre Padrone (1977)
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
Dove volano i corvi d'argento (1977)
Mr. Klein (1976)
Ganga (1975)
The Time of the Beginning (1974)
The Bridle On The Neck (1974)
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun (1974)
The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
Gli amici degli amici hanno saputo (1973)
Holidays (1973)
The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
Il cancelliere Krehler (1972)
L'inchiesta (1971)
La possessione (1971)
L'attaccatura (1971)
Praised Be My Lord (1969)
Esperienze In Uno Spazio Non Teatrale (1968)
Il ricevimento (1968)
(A)lter (A)ction (1968)
Nascita di un culto (1968)
L'Apparizione (1968)
Gangsters '70 (1968)
The Dress Rehearsal (1968)
La ragazza di plastica (1968)
Bandidos (1967)
Essere capo (1967)
LSD Flesh of Devil (1967)
I fujenti (1966)
Il lagno (1966)
Il canale (1966)
Brindisi '65 (1966)
Tommaso (1965)
Viaggio in Lucania (1965)
Il male di San Donato (1965)
Being Women (1965)
Un paese che frana (1964)
La tragedia del Vajont (1963)
The Wild Weird Wonderful Italians (1963)
L' uomo e la maschera (1963)
Lotta contro i mostri (1963)
Fazzoletti di terra (1963)
On Sunday (1963)
I mali mestieri (1963)
Women of Devil's Island (1962)
To Arms, We Are Fascists! (1962)
Avenger of the Seven Seas (1962)
Benito Mussolini: Anatomy of a Dictator (1962)
Divine Love (1961)
Fata Morgana (1961)
The Chant of Tiber’s Branches (1961)
Maria's Days (1960)
Stendali (Still They Toll) (1960)
Via Tasso (1960)
Il mago (1959)
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Known ForSound
GenderMale
Birthday1928-08-04
Deathday1992-08-04 (64 years old)
Birth PlaceGrosseto, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy, Italy
Also Known AsWerther Pierazzuoli, Nuova Consonanza
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