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Hate Duets. A tiny man (5 ft. 3 in.), grey-maned Composer Dallapiccola is affectionately known in Italian musical circles as "Il Bruttino"-The Ugly One. He now lives in Florence in a musty, 17th century palazzo. There he is hard at work on a gigantic, twelve-tone grand opera to be based on Joyce's Ulysses. The trouble with modern opera, says Dallapiccola, is that composers "seem to have come to a mutual agreement to eliminate the love element which has delighted audiences for a century. The love duet was axed, and it would now be appropriate...
...Italian musical circles, short, homely Composer Luigi Dallapiccola is affectionately known as Il Bruttino-The Ugly One. For some Italian critics, the name also applies to his dodecafonico music. In Italy, the land of Verdi and Puccini, Luigi Dallapiccola, 46, is the chief disciple of Arnold Schoenberg's strange-to-the-ear twelve-tone technique...
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