Born: January 29, 1924 in Venice, Italy
Years Active: 50 's, 60 's, 70 's, 80 's
Died: May 08, 1990 in Venice, Italy
Genre: CLASS

Italian composer in the 12-tone or atonal style, whose work encompasses many forms, including opera and electronic music. Many fundamental works by Nono are out of print -- "y su sangre ya viene cantando (And Even Your Blood Comes Singing)," for flute, strings, and percussion, from Epitaffio per Garcia Lorca ("Epitaph for Garcia Lorca," RCA Victrola VICS 1313, 1968); the choral settings of texts by Cesare Pavese; and the operas Intolleranze ("Intolerance," 1960, which attacks segregation, the bomb, and Nazism); Al Gran Sole Carico d'Amore ("To the Great Sun Charged with Love," 1975, about the Paris Commune of 1871). Blue Gene Tyranny, Rovi

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