Casavola (who had studied music at the Rome Conservatory) accepted this invitation with alacrity and formally joined the radical Italian art movement. He began to compose new pieces under the influence of earlier manifestoes written by Marinetti and, later, the specific manifestos on Futurist music produced by Francesco Balilla Pratella and Luigi Russolo, variously dated between 1909 and 1914. Early Futurist work by Casavola included: "Ranocchi al Chiaro d Luna" (Frogs in the Moonlight) by A.G. Bragaglia and "La Danza della Scimmie" (Dance of the Monkeys) for the Teatro della Sorpresa (Theatre of Surprise).