| Il canto sospeso | |
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| Cantata by Luigi Nono | |
.jpg) The composer in 1979 | |
| English | The Suspended Song |
| Text | from Giulio Einaudi's Lettere di condannati a morte della Resistenza europea |
| Language | Italian |
| Performed | 24 October 1956 |
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Il canto sospeso (The Suspended Song) is a cantata for vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra by the Italian composer Luigi Nono, written in 1955–56. It is one of the most admired examples of serial composition from the 1950s, but has also excited controversy over the relationship between its political content and its compositional means.