luigi dallapiccola

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born Feb. 3, 1904, Pisino, Istria, Austrian Empire died Feb. 19, 1975, Florence Croatian-born Italian composer. Originally influenced by the music of Claude Debussy, he later was strongly affected by that of Arnold Schoenberg, and he became the leading Italian 12-tone composer. His Songs of Prison (1941) was inspired by the experience of fascism, as was his opera The Prisoner (1948). Other important works include the operas Night Flight (1939), Job (1950), and Ulisse (1968)

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Lu·i·gi Dal·la·pic·co·la