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.
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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.
