Luigi Dallapiccola, (
February 3,
1904 -
February 19,
1975), was an
Italian composer who studied at the
Florence Conservatory[?] in the
1920s and became professor there in
1931. In
1956 he was appointed professor at Queen's College, New York. His works widely use
serialism, and he developed serialist techniques to allow for a more lyrical, tonal style.
He was born in Pisino, Istria and died in Florence.