LUIGI NONO is one of the most significant composers of the last century and one of the major voices who epitomises both modernism and Marxism in music. 

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He stated in 1969: “There is no doubt that a score has no more chance of causing a revolution than a picture, a poem or a book; but music, just like a picture, poem or book, can testify to the desolate state of society, can contribute, can be the basis for awareness, if its technical attributes maintain the same level as the ideological ones.”