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Luigi Nono (29 January 1904 - 8 May 1990) was an Italian composer of contemporary music.
Nono was born in Venice. He studied at the Venice Conservatoire where he became
acquainted with serialism. (He married Schönberg's daughter Nuria in 1955). He worked for a time at the electronic studio in Darmstadt, and became a leading composer of electronic, aleatory, and serial music.
Nono was committed to socialism, and his avant-garde music was also a revolt
against bourgeois culture. As such, he avoided of normal concert genres in favor of opera and electronic music, and bringing
music to factories. He made frequent recourse to political texts and his work. His Il canto sospeso (1956), based on the
letters of victims of wartime oppression, brought him international recognition.
Other works of Nono include Intolleranza (1961), Ein Gespenst geht um in der Welt (1971), Canto per il
Vietnam (1973), and Al gran sole carico d'amore (1975).
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