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Article: And then there were none; The death of the avant-garde composer Luciano Berio has left a void at the heart of Italian music.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 11, 2003
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Byline: NORMAN LEBRECHT
The death of the avant-garde composer Luciano Berio has left a void at the heart of Italian music
THE recent death of Luciano Berio leaves Italy without a single composer of world renown - indeed, without one composer whose name might elicit a flicker of ragazzi recognition in any town piazza from Milan to Palermo.
Italy has become overnight a land without music, a calamity of uncalculated cultural magnitude.
Since the dawn of European music, Italy has been its chief wellspring of melody and imagination. Johann Sebastian Bach learned his craft copying out concertos by Vivaldi and claiming them as his own. ...