Albert Mayr

Albert Mayr (1 August 1943 – 28 January 2024) was an Italian composer of experimental and contemporary music. He studied music and composition in three different cities: at conservatories in both Bolzano and Florence and at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in German. In 1965, Mayr graduated in music and choral singing from the Florence Conservatory. From 1963 to 1969, Mayr worked with Pietro Grossi at “Fonologia Musicale’s study” in Florence and received commissions from the musicological division of CNUCE/CNR. He received commissions from Südtiroler Künstlerbund, from “Brixner Iniziative Musik und Kirche” and from Sound Art at Mobius, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. He is a composer of the Florentine artistic movement that has been active since the end of World War II up to the present, including Sylvano Bussotti, Giuseppe Chiari, Giancarlo Cardini, Sergio Maltagliati, Daniele Lombardi, Pietro Grossi, Lelio Camilleri, Francesco Giomi. These musicians have experimented with the interaction among sound, sign and vision, a synaesthetics of art derived from historical avant-gardes, from Wassily Kandinsky to futurism, to Alexander Scriabin and Arnold Schoenberg, all the wa