ANGELA CARONE / CHRISTOPH NEIDHÖFER (CUR.) - Hidden Geographies. Essays on the Music of Camillo Togni
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ANGELA CARONE / CHRISTOPH NEIDHÖFER (CUR.) - Hidden Geographies. Essays on the Music of Camillo Togni

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ANGELA CARONE / CHRISTOPH NEIDHÖFER (CURATELA) - Hidden Geographies. Essays on the Music of Camillo Togni

Camillo Togni (1922-1993) ranks among the finest composers of the twentieth century, yet to date he has received little scholarly attention in English. Initially closely associated with the post-war musical avant-garde, Togni ultimately stood apart from it. He was, with Luigi Dallapiccola, one of the earliest Italian composers to adopt twelve-tone technique during World War II, and in the 1950s pioneered com­positional methods that extended serial control to numerous musical parameters in highly imaginative and disciplined ways. Unlike many of his contemporaries, however, Togni cultivated an intensely expressionist musical style modelled on, but transcending, that of the Second Viennese School. 

 This volume brings together new research on Togni that illuminates how he embraced novel compositional techniques in the service of a musical style different from that of other serial composers. The essays trace the distinctiveness of Togni’s instrumental, vocal, and electronic music to the philosophical roots of his thinking (he graduated in philosophy with a thesis on the aesthetics of Croce) and discuss his compositional procedures, the ‘inward expressiveness’ he cherished, the ethical dimension of his work (inspired by Schoenberg, Trakl, and Sartre), and his experience as pianist.

  • Daniela Cima, Camillo Togni: Composer of His Time
  • Aldo Orvieto, Camillo Togni: Composer-Pianist and Master of Lyrical Sensibility
  • Christoph Neidhöfer, Developed from Within Rather than Imposed from Outside: Multi-parametric Thinking in Camillo Togni’s Settings of Georg Trakl’s Gesang zur Nacht 
  • Angela Carone, Composing with Charts and Performers: Observations on the Creative Process in Quasi una serenata (1979) and Cinque pezzi per flauto e chitarra (1975–76) by Camillo Togni
  • Giada Viviani, Georg Trakl and the «Jeweler»: The Literary Sources of Camillo Togni’s Blaubart
  • Laura Zattra, Recitativo for Tape (1961) by Camillo Togni: Tracking the Creative Process for His Only Work of Electronic Music