Word: dallapiccola
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Uphill Fight. I.S.C.M. did that, and more. In its annual festivals, it helped spread the news (and the international reputations) of such men as Twelve-Ton-ists Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg, France's Darius Milbaud and Olivier Messiaen, Italy's Luigi Dallapiccola, the U.S.'s Roger Sessions and Aaron Copland...
...your article on Composer Luigi Dallapiccola [TIME, May 29]: How many busybodies have written to inform you that his "Kafkaesque libretto" to Il Prigioniero was, with the exception of locale, lifted in its entirety from The Torture of Hope, a short story by [19th Century French Author] Villiers de L'Isle Adams...
...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...
...Dallapiccola had had no such narrow texts in mind; he thought his story might apply to men everywhere. He had set his Kafkaesque libretto in the reign of Philip II of Spain (1556-98), though he obviously meant it to apply to contemporary times...
...surprise, Composer Dallapiccola, a man who does not expect popular huzzahs for his music, got four curtain calls-perhaps more for what he said than for the twelve-tone way he said it. Said he: "I have the impression . . . that this subject could, in all probability, reach a good section of Europeans...