Walter Marchetti

For the first half of Marchetti's life, he was, in his words, "condemned" to work at various bread-and-butter jobs, which included: grape harvester, brick-layer, saddler, wine-seller, metal-shearer, turner, frame welder, and an ample "etc." besides. In music he is self-taught. His numerous attempts to carry out serious musical studies came to nothing, he says, due to feelings that the "establishment" is a complete farce. Among the major events of his creative life, he cites his meeting with Bruno Maderna in 1955. It was through Maderna that he came to absorb the decisive infl...