Nuria schoenberg biography for kids

It was a classic coup de foudre. Nuria Schoenberg, daughter of the great composer Arnold Schoenberg, was in Hamburg in 1954 to attend the posthumous premiere of her father’s opera Moses und Aron.

It was her first visit to Europe since her family had fled Nazi Germany for the US 20 years previously. Standing opposite her was a young Italian called Luigi Nono.

Nuria schoenberg biography for kids

The aspiring composer had helped write the unfinished opera’s orchestral parts and wanted to be introduced. Neither spoke the other’s language. Within weeks, Nuria and “Gigi” were married. So began a story that was to unite the legacy of two of the 20th century’s musical giants.

Nuria Nono, chic, petite and 75, is in London to attend the Southbank Centre’s Nono retrospective, “Fragments of Venice”.

Pooling the talents of musicians as diverse as Maurizio Pollini and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, it sets Nono’s music in the context of those who influenced him, from the early Itali