An unusual AQS from the influential Italian avant-garde composer, who has inscribed and signed and penned "Freedom For Vietnam!", adding the date "9-12-68 / Venezia." In fine condition, together with an unsigned trifold BMI Music catalogue brochure for the composer.
Italian composer Luigi Nono’s career told the story of European communism writ large: brash and revolutionary at the height of the 1960s and ‘70s, reflective and uncertain as the Italian Communist Party collapsed and the possibility of radical change receded. His life is a reminder that no artist is free from the politics of our time.
Nono was a fearless explorer of new techniques of composition with tape and electronics, first embracing them on his 1960 piece Omaggio a Emilio Vedova; he was also a ferocious, life-long opponent of injustice and exploitation.
In 1952, Nono joined the Communist Party of Italy (Partito Comunista Italiano, or PCI). He was a vocal supporter of liberation movements throughout the developing world and gave many of his pieces dedications or titles in tribute to guerrilla leaders. “Y entonces comprendió,” for instance, bore a dedication to “Ernesto ‘Che’ Guavara and all his fellow combatants in the Sierra Maestras of the world” – a reference to the high mountains in which the Cuban revolution was hatched.
An unusual AQS from the influential Italian avant-garde composer, who has inscribed and signed and penned "Freedom For Vietnam!", adding the date "9-12-68 / Venezia." In fine condition, together with an unsigned trifold BMI Music catalogue brochure for the composer.
Italian composer Luigi Nono’s career told the story of European communism writ large: brash and revolutionary at the height of the 1960s and ‘70s, reflective and uncertain as the Italian Communist Party collapsed and the possibility of radical change receded. His life is a reminder that no artist is free from the politics of our time.
Nono was a fearless explorer of new techniques of composition with tape and electronics, first embracing them on his 1960 piece Omaggio a Emilio Vedova; he was also a ferocious, life-long opponent of injustice and exploitation.
In 1952, Nono joined the Communist Party of Italy (Partito Comunista Italiano, or PCI). He was a vocal supporter of liberation movements throughout the developing world and gave many of his pieces dedications or titles in tribute to guerrilla leaders. “Y entonces comprendió,” for instance, bore a dedication to “Ernesto ‘Che’ Guavara and all his fellow combatants in the Sierra Maestras of the world” – a reference to the high mountains in which the Cuban revolution was hatched.