Word: dallapiccola
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...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...
Like dodecacophonists the world over, Istrian-born Composer Dallapiccola has had a rough road to follow. He has gained an international reputation, says one Florentine critic, "[simply] because he is connected musically to international trends." At home, he has won critical respect because, as another critic puts it, "There is no aridity in Dallapiccola . . . Very few musicians feel with so much intensity and sorrow . . . the tremendous tragedy of our times." But, like the twelve-tone work of U.S. composers, his lyrical but contorted music has still to win the affection of the public. Says Dallapiccola himself: "The public...
...Little Girl." Last week the audience at Florence's May Festival heard Composer Dallapiccola's latest and most ambitious work, his opera Il Prigioniero (The Prisoner), which had its première on the Italian radio last year...
Festival officials were leary of putting the opera on. Says Dallapiccola: "Everyone reads into my opera what they like, not what I wrote. People wrongly accuse me of being antiChristian. I believe in God, I take my little girl to church myself every morning. The Communists, who in the beginning approved highly of the opera, now say that it's a skit on Stalin and his methods...