by Blue Gene Tyranny
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).