Luciano Berio

A major force in the development of post-war-era experimental music, avant-garde composer and theorist Luciano Berio brought a sense of lyricism and personal expression to even the most complex techniques of electronic and aleatoric music, his modernist approach lending itself to a variety of idioms while incorporating resources including folk traditions, poetry, choreography, mime, and acrobatics. He ranks with Boulez, Ligeti, Stockhausen, and Cage as among the most innovative and radical voices of the 20th century's second half. He adopted the serial technique, but often tem...