Domenico Guaccero

Domenico Guaccero
(b Palo del Colle, nr Bari, 11 April 1927; d Rome, 24 April 1984). Italian composer and writer on music.

Following his piano diploma and classical literature degree (1949) in Bari, he studied composition with Petrassi at the Conservatorio di S Cecilia in Rome (diploma 1956). In 1957 and 1959 he attended the summer courses in Darmstadt. With others (including Evangelisti and Egisto Macchi), he was very involved in Rome with the promotion and development of electronic music (he helped to found the studio of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, 1957, and the R7 studio, 1968), with contemporary music associations (in particular Nuova Consonanza from 1960) and with music-theatre groups and other initiatives. He was the co-founder (1959) and chief editor of the journal Ordini-Studi sulla Nuova Musica and editor of Collage (1963–8). He also taught composition at the conservatories of Pesaro, L'Aquila, Frosinone and Rome.