![House in Venice where Nono was born, at Ponte Longo, Fondamenta delle Zattere [it], Dorsoduro](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Home_of_Luigi_Nono%2C_Zattere_al_ponte_Longo%2C_Dorsoduro%2C_Venice%2C_Italy_-_20080614.jpg/500px-Home_of_Luigi_Nono%2C_Zattere_al_ponte_Longo%2C_Dorsoduro%2C_Venice%2C_Italy_-_20080614.jpg)
House in Venice where Nono was born, at Ponte Longo, Fondamenta delle Zattere [it], Dorsoduro
![Maria Krzyszkowska [pl] and Witold Gruca [pl] in a 1962 production of Nono's ballet, Il mantello rosso (1954)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Maria_Krzyszkowska_Witold_Gruca_Polish_dancers.jpg/500px-Maria_Krzyszkowska_Witold_Gruca_Polish_dancers.jpg)
Maria Krzyszkowska [pl] and Witold Gruca [pl] in a 1962 production of Nono's ballet, Il mantello rosso (1954)
Nono and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt, summer 1957
Il canto sospeso
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Il canto sospeso is a cantata for vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, written in 1955–56. It is one of the most admired examples of serial composition from the 195
Luigi Nono
…Moses und Aron in Hamburg. They married in 1955. An atheist, Nono had enrolled as a member of the Italian Communist Party in 1952. The world première of Il canto sospeso (1955–56) for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra brought Nono international recognition and acknowledgment as a successor to Webern. "Reviewers noted…
The composer in 1968