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(Pâr Ner´-gôr) b. 1932 Danish composer The most significant Danish symphonist since Nielsen, Nørgård studied at the Royal Danish Conservatory in Copenhagen and privately in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, also corresponding with Sibelius, whose organically evolving textures strongly influenced his later output. In the 1970s he began experimenting with the natural harmonics of the overtone series, sometimes ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

(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 ...

Source: Classical Music Encyclopedia, founding editor Stanley Sadie

The Contemporary era can be dated back to Anton Webern’s death in September 1945. Webern’s influence on the generation of post-Second World War composers means that much of the music from the 1950s sounds more modern than music from the last 20 years. Composers such as Karlheinz Stockhausen (b. 1928) and Pierre Boulez (b. 1925) extended the 12-note, or serial ...

Source: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Music, general editor Paul Du Noyer
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