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Manifesto dei Musicisti Futuristi (Manifesto of the Futurist musicians), published on October 11, 1910, followed similar documents on literature and painting. It was written by Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880‒1955), the most distinguished of the musicians who embraced the style of the Futurist Movement. It is from a collection of Futurist documents held by the University Library of Padua. Futurism was a short-lived artistic movement, founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876‒1944). The goal of the Futurists was to discard the art of the past ...