Gianfranco Zàccaro

Gianfranco Zàccaro (musicologist and writer), was an authoritative presence in the programming of Radiotre (RAI, Radio Televisione Italiana) of the 70s and 80s, a sharp and witty pen for over thirty years on various sector magazines. Numerous books, from Ciaikowski (1967) to Beethoven, passing through the celebrated Gustav Mahler: study for an interpretation of 1971. Ambitious for the time (1979) was also a social history of music. His predilection for study, however, remained the twentieth century, with "Music from decadentism to today" (1978), "The two streets of Schönberg" (1980, with Paolo Fenoglio), The music of the twentieth century (1986) and more recently "Aphorisms on the musical twentieth century "(2001). In recent years he was working on a provocative rereading of the historical and post-Webernian avant-gardes as substantially conservative phenomena, entitled "Conservation and annihilation". (Cit. Marco Beghelli)