NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of Luigi Dallapiccola on 2 May 2023. Luigi Dallapiccola has been played on NTS over 10 times, featured on 7 episodes and was first played on 4 October 2016.

Luigi Dallapiccola (February 3, 1904 – February 19, 1975) was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.

He was born in Pisino, Istria (current Pazin, Croatia, but part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire back then), to Italian parents. Unlike many composers born into highly musical environments, his early musical career was irregular at best. Political disputes over his birthplace of Istria, then part of the Austrian Empire, led to…