Inspiration and order, visionary and concrete: the compositional path shown by Edoardo Dadone could be summarized with these (and other similar, ad libitum) apparent antitheses. It is certain that any opening of the page the scores show an unceasing push towards tonal and gestural invention, ready to make use of the entire palette available to a composer today. At the same time, however, every resource, even the most surprising, is never abandoned to sterile contemplation but inserted within stringent and highly controlled formal logics: an expertly unstable balance achieved in a very short span of years, as evidenced by the dates of composition of the works here presented in a sort of first evaluation.