Egisto Macchi

Biography

Italian avant-garde composer, co-founder of the Associazione Nuova Consonanza in 1960 and a member of *Franco Evangelisti*'s Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza from 1967, alongside *Ennio Morricone*. Alongside concert and electronic works he wrote dozens of film scores and a vast body of dark, atmospheric library music now prized by collectors of Italian soundtracks. He died in Montpellier in 1992.