A guide to contemporary classical musicClassical musicA guide to Luigi Nono's musicFew composers have understood as keenly as Nono did that every musical decision also has social and political ramifications, but there is more to his work than the overtly politicalLuigi Nono's music was never going to change the world. There's a cliche that the Italian composer's trenchant political convictions, and the stream of pieces he wrote with avowedly protesting or politically radical titles and messages – the music theatre pieces Intolleranza (which caused a partisan riot at its premiere in 1961 at La Fenice in Venice) and Al gran sole carico d'amore, his anti-fascist orchestral and choral masterpiece from the mid-50s Il canto sospeso, his experimental anti-capitalist cantata for soprano and tape La fabbrica illuminata, or the violent expressionism of the partly improvised A floresta è jovem e cheja de vida – are narrow-minded pieces of agitprop that beat their audiences over the head with superficial sloganising and alternately despairing or utopian imagery.

Jean-Paul Belmondo defined French cool at the beginning of the New Wave in Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 classic “Breathless.” Actor Alain Delon and director Jean-Pierre Melville very consciously redefined it in 1967’s “Le Samourai,” in which Delon played a killer for hire always adjusting his fedora so it was just so.

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