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(1924–90), Italian composer, known for his advanced techniques and his musical expressions of leftist political convictions. Born in Venice, he studied with the Italian composers Gian Francesco Malipiero and Bruno Maderna (1920–73). Nono received international acclaim for his twelve-tone cantata Il canto sospeso (The Suspended Song, 1956). In the 1960s he turned to electronic music. To denounce the exploitation of the working class he used recordings made in iron foundries for the mixed-media work La fabbrica illuminata (The Illuminated Factory, 1964). Political protest is expressed in his operas Intolleranza (1960; rev. 1970), dedicated to his father-in-law, the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg, and In the Great Sun of Blooming Love (1972–75; rev. 1978), set to a work by the French poet Arthur Rimbaud; and in Song for Vietnam (1973).
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