PRAISING THE SOUNDS - LUIGI NONO “OMAGGIO A GYÖRGY KURTÁG”

Fulvia Anca CONSTANTIN

doi:10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss3.02

Authors

Fulvia Anca CONSTANTIN PhD Student at Academia Națională de Muzică „Gheorghe Dima", Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Email: fulvia.constantin@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5437-3789

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24193/subbmusica.2025.spiss3.02

Keywords:

Luigi Nono, electronic music, Omaggio a György Kurtág, sound

Abstract

Luigi Nono’s cultural creative ideas are recognized in the modern history of music. His works and thoughts on art and sound, his composing implies vision, a connection between science (electronic technology and spatial environment) and art (sound and performance). One of his latest works from 1983, reviewed in 1986, Omaggio a György Kurtág was composed in a period when Nono got a different, unique approach to composition regarding not only the attitude towards performance but also due to his continuous acoustic research.

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