18 Facts About Luigi Nono

Luigi Nono was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music.

Luigi Nono, born in Venice, was a member of a wealthy artistic family; his grandfather was a notable painter.

Luigi Nono began music lessons with Gian Francesco Malipiero at the Venice Conservatory in 1941, where he acquired knowledge of the Renaissance madrigal tradition, amongst other styles.

Scherchen presented Luigi Nono's first acknowledged work, the Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell'op.

Nevertheless, it was with Boulez and Stockhausen that Luigi Nono became one of the leaders of the New Music during the 1950s.

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An atheist, Luigi Nono had enrolled as a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1952.

In certain pieces in the "Canto", Luigi Nono composed the text as if to withdraw it from the public eye where it has no place.

Luigi Nono rather reduces speech to its sounds and makes music with them.

Luigi Nono took strong exception, and informed Stockhausen that it was "incorrect and misleading, and that he had had neither a phonetic treatment of the text nor more or less differentiated degrees of comprehensibility of the words in mind when setting the text".

Luigi Nono likened their significance to the Bauhaus in the visual arts and architecture.

On 1 September 1959, Luigi Nono delivered at Darmstadt a polemically charged lecture written in conjunction with his pupil Helmut Lachenmann, "Geschichte und Gegenwart in der Musik von Heute", in which he criticised and distanced himself from the composers of chance and aleatoric music, then in vogue, under the influence of American models such as John Cage.

Luigi Nono began to incorporate documentary material on tape, and a new use of electronics, that he felt necessary to produce the "concrete situations" relevant to contemporary political issues.

One of Luigi Nono's most demanding works, Fragmente-Stille is music on the threshold of silence.

Luigi Nono had been introduced to the Venice-based philosopher, Massimo Cacciari, who began to have an increasing influence on the composer's thought during the 1980s.

Musically, Luigi Nono began to experiment with the new sound possibilities and production at the Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWR in Freiburg.

In 1985, Luigi Nono came across this aphorism on a wall of the Franciscan monastery near Toledo, Spain, and it played an important role in the rest of his compositions.

Luigi Nono is buried on the Isola di San Michele, alongside other artists like Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Zoran Music and Ezra Pound.

Luigi Nono Archives were established in 1993, through the efforts of Nuria Schoenberg Nono, for the purpose of housing and conserving the Luigi Nono legacy.