Luigi Nono

Long considered, with Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, to be one point in the trinity of the post-war avant-garde, Luigi Nono was, without question, one of the most important and singular composers to emerge in the years following the Second World War - defining the zeitgeist, taking the his idiom into startling new territories, while standing decidedly apart. Nono's music infused the avant-garde with a sense of emotion and moral consciousness which had been previously unheard, seeking to join advanced forms of music in the social struggles of every day life. Unlike most of his peers, the composer was political in everything he did. His music is a rallying call of the left. Originally issued in 1969, none of Nono's works illuminate this radical consciousness and concern better than his seminal 'Musica-Manifesto Numero 1'. Now reissued for the first time by Die Schachtel in collaboration with Archivo Storico Ricordi, it is revolution led by one man - a window into the creative and political potential of sound.