Luigi Nono (© Fernando Pereira)

GESPRÄCHSKONZERT
Mittwoch, 8. Mai 2024, 16.00 Uhr
Solitär
Universität Mozarteum
Mirabellplatz 1

Simone Fontanelli & Eung Gu Kim, Konzeption
Eine Veranstaltung des Institutes für Neue Musik

Italian composer Luigi Nono (1924-1990) was one of the most influential members of the post-war avantgarde. He would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year – a great occasion to perform a selection of his important works together with those of two of his closest friends and colleagues: Bruno Maderna and Karlheinz Stockhausen.
Nono had his first lessons of music theory at the Venice Conservatory (1941-45) with Gian Francesco Malipiero, who showed him the route to early music (particularly early Venetian music). After finishing his law studies at the University of Padua, in 1946 he resumed his musical studies, this time with the composer and conductor Bruno Maderna, who became a close friend. In 1948 both became disciples of Hermann Scherchen, who deeply influenced Nono musically, culturally and politically.

His avant-garde partisanship was inseparable from a commitment to socialism, twin aspects of a revolt against bourgeois culture: hence his avoidance of normal concert genres in favour of opera and electronic music, his frequent recourse to political texts and his work in bringing music to factories.
Nono joined the Italian communist party in 1952. In 1955, he married Schönberg’s daughter Nuria. In 1967, he taught classes in Argentina and Peru, where he was arrested and expelled for expressing support for the release of political prisoners. In Cuba, he met Fidel Castro.
His works include the operas Intolleranza 1960 (1961) and Al gran sole carico d’amore (1975), the cantata Il canto sospeso (1956), orchestral works and tape pieces. Experimentation with live electronics, and the study of Jewish and Greek cultures informed his composition Fragmente Stille, an Diotima (1979-80) for string quartet and his opera Prometeo 1981-84).
Nono died on 8 May 1990 in Venice from cancer.

 

PROGRAMM

Präsentation Luigi Nono (1924-1990)
Einführungsgespräch/lecture (Simone Fontanelli *)
*) Alle Einführungen und Vorträge von Herrn Fontanelli werden auf Englisch sein

Luigi Nono
Ricorda cosa ti hanno fatto in Auschwitz (1966)
für Tonband
Marco Döttlinger, Vortrag + Abspielung

Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007)
In Freundschaft (1977)
Version für Fagott
Vortrag/Einleitung (Simone Fontanelli) + Aufführung
Francesco Quarata, Fagott

Luigi Nono
…sofferte onde serene… (1976)
für Klavier und Tonband
Dasom Woo, Klavier
Eung-Gu Kim, Einstudierung und Klangregie

++++ Pause ++++

“das Suchen ist unendlich wichtiger als das Finden”
Forschen im Archivio Luigi Nono
Erik Esterbauer, Einführungsgespräch/lecture

Luigi Nono
La fabbrica illuminata (1964)
für Sopran-Solo und vierspuriges Tonband.
Dokumentartexte und Verse von Cesare Pavese
Vortrag/Einleitung (Simone Fontanelli) + Aufführung
Imola Máté, Sopran
Eung-Gu Kim, Einstudierung und Klangregie

Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)
Serenata per un satellite (1969)
Vortrag/Einleitung (Simone Fontanelli) + Aufführung
Beatrice Lanaro, Flöte
Carlos Andrés, Oboe
Damiano Isola, Violin
Paolo Santoro und Alessandro Dominguez, Gitarren