Dallapiccola
Americannoun
noun
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Throughout Cantelli’s career in the United States, there were criticisms of his repertoire, which ran from Frescobaldi and Monteverdi to Barber and Dallapiccola but turned out to be repetitive from season to season.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2022
Mr. Rzewski then went to Italy on a Fulbright Fellowship and worked with composer Luigi Dallapiccola in Florence.
From Washington Post • Jun. 26, 2021
Other operas in the season include “Volo di Notte” and “Il Prigioniero,” two short works by Luigi Dallapiccola; and a December staging of the George Gershwin musical “Porgy and Bess.”
From New York Times • Aug. 23, 2016
He will perform, with his Rome-based Orchestra and Chorus of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Verdi's Requiem and Il Prigioniero by Dallapiccola – "who wrote the most beautiful 12-tone music there is", he said.
From The Guardian • Jan. 17, 2013
In 1939, Dallapiccola adopted Arnold Schoenberg's dodecaphonic method of composing and with it produced complex, passionate vocal and instrumental music in which he tried to express Europe's suffering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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