Experiences of the second world war left composers of different generations adrift from each other. In a survey of works from the post-war decade, cellist Natalie Clein offers three such contrasting ...

For Italian Composer Luigi Dallapiccola, 57, life has by his own testimony been “one long suffer.” The suffer is apparent in the spare, abrasively powerful twelve-tone music that has flowed steadily ...

On April 1 1924, Schoenberg arrived in Florence with his touring ensemble for a performance of his expressionist cabaret piece Pierrot Lunaire at the Palazzo Pitti. Most of those present regarded the ...

The Partita (1932) occupies the dimensions of a symphony, complete with Mahler-like song finale, as Dallapiccola cunningly reworks material from the Italian Baroque, enriching his sources with lavish ...

In Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino—The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In ...