Luciano Berio
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"Luciano Berio", Italian orders of merit/Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI was an Italian composer. He is noted for his experimental music/experimental work (in particular his 1968 composition Sinfonia and his series of virtuosic solo pieces titled Sequenza) and also for his pioneering work in electronic music.

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The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

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Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.

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