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Dallapiccola, Luigi (1904–1975) By Roderick, Peter

DOI: 10.4324/9781135000356-REM554-1
Published: 09/05/2016
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Luigi Dallapiccola was the leading Italian composer of the middle half of the twentieth century, contributing much to the development of musical modernism in Italy as well as writing some of the most famous and widely performed music of his era. He was born in Pisino in modern-day Croatia; his Istrian background and the changing political ownership of his hometown are often cited as the root of many of his later musical and esthetic directions. However, it could be claimed that his more crucial relationship with place occurred in Florence, where he re-located in 1922 as a burgeoning compositional talent to study with Ernesto Consolo and later the modernist Vito Frazzi. He never left, finding the city of Dante, Botticelli, and Boccaccio to be a perpetual artistic muse. By the end of the 1930s, Dallapiccola had been firmly established as Italian music’s principal pioneer and was known overseas as a vocal supporter of musical internationalism through the International Society for Contemporary Music.

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Roderick, Peter. Dallapiccola, Luigi (1904–1975). Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rem.routledge.com/articles/dallapiccola-luigi-1904-1975.

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