Resumen de Cinquant'anni dal Gruppo 63
Fifty Years after the ‘Gruppo 63’ · The 'Gruppo 63' – writes Lorenzini – was a very short experience, without a manifesto, without any collective declaration of intents, and an experience considered with self- irony even by its protagonists, 'la generazione di Nettuno', 'a nobody generation', in Umberto Eco’s memorable formulation (Nettuno is the Greeek Sea-God Neptune, here a Joke with Italian "Nessuno", i.e, "Nobody"). Yet, underlines Lorenzini, that short experience, with no manifestation of togetherness, became canonic, and entered school texts as an important moment in the history of Italian culture. It was the discovery of a common trend in critical thought resulting in the Group’s common anti-tragic, anti-pathetic, anti-sublime, fragment-montage text-construction modality with a kind of perspective also to be found in the history of the Italian vanguard musical composition, in Nono, Maderna, Berio.
