Description

La Musica Futurista. Manifesto tecnico (Futurist music. Technical manifesto), published on March 11, 1911, expands upon the Manifesto dei Musicisti Futuristi (Manifesto of the Futurist musicians), issued the previous year. Both works were by Francesco Balilla Pratella (1880‒1955) and paralleled similar developments in the field of Futurist art. They are 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 ...