Dies Irae, despite this early recognition, continue to give concerts in its region but fails, probably out of lack of effective management and a lack of interest from record companies, to increase brand awareness in France. In 1979, after ten years, worn down by the struggle, the Monegasque musicians give up.

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But the story does not end there, Francois Szönyi who began to study classical guitar in 1976 at the Academy of Music Rainier III of Monaco, to perfect his performance within Dies Irae, decided to create the Aighetta Quartett with Alexandre Del Fa and other musicians, a quartet of guitars that toured often in Germany and Italy.

Their intimate music repertoire with personal transcriptions ranging from Telemann, Ravel, Bartók, Castelnuovo- Tedesco, Hindemith music of Spanish composers De Falla, Albéniz, Grandos to renaissance music arouses enthusiasm of a more varied audience. This is confirmed after more than twenty world premieres, and a dozen recordings for Universal, Harmonia Mundi, Musea, Nocturne, etc. Anthony Burgess, author of a Clockwork Orange composed for them two songs for the guitar and John McLaughlin invited them to play in the band Time Remembered.

At the same time, Dies Goa is created, a jazz rock trio constituted of Francis Szönyi (guitar, electronics), Alexandre Del Fa (bass, acoustic guitar) and Guy Galassini (drums, electronics). A group which performs at the Nice Jazz Festival Off (2009-2011), at the Monte Carlo Jazz Festival (with Marcus Miller) in 2009, Cape Jazz (with André Cecarelli) and Antichi Borghi Festival di Liguria (Italy) in August 2010. Then in Italy (Pescara , Arezzo, Rovigo, Verona, Padova) in 2011-2012 and in the Off Antibes-Juan les Pins in July 2013. The band returned to the studio in November 2013 to record an album “Nothing Has An End” (after a quote from Alejandro Jodorowsky) to be published in 2015. A year where the band tours with Richard Sinclair former bassist of Caravan and Hatfield and the North.

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(Credit: journalist Roger Nighersoli)