Cemetery, Venice.]]Luigi Nono (January 29, 1924 ? May 8, 1990) was an Italian avant-garde composer of classical music and intellectual, one of the most important composers of the 20th century. Biography Early years Born in Venice, he was a member of a wealthy artistic family, and his grandfather was a notable painter. Nono began music lessons with Gian Francesco Malipiero in 1941 at the Venice Conservatory where he acquired knowledge of the Renaissance madrigal tradition, amongst other styles. After graduating with a degree in law from the University of Padua, he was given encouragement in composition by Bruno Maderna. Through Maderna, he became acquainted with Hermann Scherchen?then Maderna's conducting teacher?who gave Nono further tuition and was an early mentor and advocate of his music. It was Scherchen who presented Nono's first ackowledged work, the Variazione canoniche sulla serie dell'op. 41 di A. Schönberg

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