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Among the major representatives of italian and european experimental avant-gard. Franco Evangelisti gave up his engeneering studies to devote himself to musical composition. In 1948 he was Daniele Paris' pupil in Rome and Harald Genzmer's in Freiburg Musikhochschule, where he attended advanced training courses in composition.
From 1952 to 1960 he attended Fereinkurse for New Music in Darmstadt, where he met Werner Meyer-Eppler of Bonn University and became interested in electronic music. In 1956, at Herbert Eimert's invitation, he transfered in the electronic studio of Westdeutsche Rumdfunk in Cologne.
In 1957 Hermann Scherchen invited him to work in Experimental Electroacoustic Studio of UNESCO in Gravesano, where he became interested in biophysics and researched into the possibility of converting directly cerebal impulses into sound waves.

In 1958 he took part to the opening of the festival of the Experimental Studio of the Polish Radio in Warsaw, together with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Luigi Nono. The following year he was invited there to give some lectures on electronic music. In 1959 he was among the promoters of the International New Music Week in Palermo.
The following year he founded "Nuova Consonanza" Association with other Italian musicians and subsequently founded the homonymous Improvisation Group.

He was invited by The Senate of Berlin to move to the german city for two years (1966-1968), as a guest of Deutsch Akademischer Austauschdienst and Ford Foundaton. Back to Rome, he was teacher of an experimental course of Electronic composition at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia until 1972. In 1972 he was in charg of Electronic Music course in Alfredo Casella Conservatory of Music of L'Aquila. In 1974 he was appointed the role of Electronic Music teacher at Santa Cecilia Conservatory of music of Rome and he kept this position up to his death.
During those years he kept giving concerts, in Italy and abroad, with Nuova Consonanza Improvisation Group and giving lectures and seminars on "new music".

In 1962 he gave up composing activity to devote himself to research and theoretical studies; the only exception was Campi Integrati n.2, composed for UNICEF in 1979 on the occasion of Children Year. 
At the end of 1979, after having been working nearly twenty years, he completed his book "Dal silenzio a un nuovo mondo sonoro" (From silence to a new sound world). He died on 28th January 1980 in Rome.