artists in giudeccaSeveral ancient and modern artists worked in Giudecca; to begin with, one name from the past is Andrea Palladio, and one of 20th century is the composer Luigi Nono (born January 29, 1924 in Venice; died May 8, 1990 in Venice). To mention a contemporary American artist working in Venice: Susan Adams Nickerson. Nono revolutioned the 20th century classical contemporary music and give greatest impulse to electronic music. Luigi Nono studied composition at the Venice Conservatory where he became acquainted with serialism. He lived in la Giudecca with his wife Nuria, Schönberg's daughter. He became a leading composer of vocal, instrumental, and electronic music. His social and political committment brought him to join the Italian Communist Party in 1952. His avant-garde music was also a revolt against bourgeois culture. As such, he avoided most normal concert genres in favor of opera and electronic music, and sought to bring music to factories. To him, la Giudecca with its industrial plants must have been a fantastic laboratory of thoughts and projects. He made frequent recourse to political texts in his work. In many of his works the political essence is evident. >> About Susan Adams Nickerson
|
