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(Loo-e’-je No’-no) 1924–90 Italian composer Nono studied with Hermann Scherchen (1891–1966) and through him attended Darmstadt, where met Stockhausen and embraced the principles of integral serialism, exploiting them idiosyncratically but powerfully and expressively in Il canto sospeso (‘The Song Unsung’, 1955–6), which sets the words of Resistance fighters killed by the Nazis. Nono’s political commitment was as strongly evident ...

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Musik, Cologne, established by Herbert Eimert in 1951; Studio di Fonologia, Milan, established in 1953 and used by many avant-garde composers including Berio, Pousseur, Nono and Cage; Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique/ Musique (IRCAM), Paris, established in 1976 under the direction of Boulez. Roberto Gerhard’s (1896–1970) Third Symphony (‘Collages’, 1960) incorporated sounds ...

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b. 1935 German composer Lachenmann studied in his home city of Stuttgart and then with Nono in Venice, soon himself becoming an influential teacher in Europe. While his early works employ serialism, he later developed his own approach, which he called musique concrète instrumentale – using conventional instruments to mimic the effect of electronically produced or manipulated sound. ...

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Boston Symphony orchestras. Recommended Recording: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie, The World’s Ransoming, LSO (cond) Sir Colin Davis (LSO Live) Introduction | Contemporary | Classical Personalities | Luigi Nono | Contemporary | Classical ...

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all recognition into pure ‘sound objects’. The highly ramified post-war developments in serial technique, led in Europe by Stockhausen, Pierre Boulez (b. 1925), Henri Pousseur (1929–2009) and Luigi Nono (1924–90), likewise aimed at an objective structural logic that, in large measure, would bypass considerations of personal taste and aesthetic preference. Darmstadt The summer courses held in the ...

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Pierrot lunaire (they later became The Fires of London, after Birtwistle had left) in 1967 as a conduit for their and others’ works. In continental Europe, Berio, Nono and Henze sought forms to serve a radical political agenda, while the Argentinian Kagel and the Americans Cage and Meredith Monk (b. 1943) were among those creating non-narrative theatre ...

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late 1960s led some composers to challenge the political implications of contemporary modernism, which they saw as elitist and divorced from the needs of ordinary people. Composers such as Nono, however, saw political progress and the advance of musical modernism as interlinked, integrating modernist techniques with tapes of revolutionary speeches and everyday sounds and performing the results ...

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Khovanshchina (‘The Khovansky Affair’), a dark opera, full of conspiracy, gloom and imminent violence, was based on a historical event. In 1682, the future modernizing tsar Peter the Great (1672–1725) was made co-ruler of Russia with his mentally retarded half-brother Ivan V (1666–96). At this time, introducing Greek and Latin practices into the Russian Church was ...