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Chailly's almost Dadaist appetitite for experimentalism, inspired perhaps (as many other writers and artists were) by the early twentieth century linguistic researches and word-games of Marinetti, led him to compose an intriguing short cantata, Tiadele-Mo, based on African Pygmy texts, for baritone, choir and percussive small ensemble. An amusing recent work is his prizewinning late choral piece La testa malcontenta, which won first prize at the Seventh International Composition Concourse of the Federation of Trentino Choirs in 1992. Chailly composed for every kind of instrument -- trumpet, percussion, mandolin -- and made a typically fine arrangement for three guitars of Mozart's C minor Fantasia.

One (No 9) of the Sonate Tritematiche, Chailly's series of major orchestral and chamber works of the 1950s, was converted into a ballet, Il Cappio (Naples, 1962). His orchestral work Sequenze dell'Artide (1960) provided material for yet another new ballet, Shee, performed by the Australian Ballet in Melbourne in 1967.

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