Venice Festival of Contemporary Music

Music of Italy
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General topics
Opera houses Music conservatories Terminology
Genres
Classical (Opera) Pop Rock (Hardcore · New Wave · Progressive rock) Disco House Dance Folk Hip hop Jazz
Media and performance
Music awards	Sanremo Music Festival (festival and awards) Festival di Napoli (festival and awards) Tenco Plates and Awards Lunezia Awards Music Awards Coca Cola Summer Festival (festival and awards) MTV Awards Festivalbar (festival and awards) Telegatti
Music charts	Federation of the Italian Music Industry (sales chart) EarOne (airplay chart)
Music festivals	Festivals Umbria Jazz Festival Ravello Festival Festival dei Due Mondi
Music media	Music media in Italy
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	"Il Canto degli Italiani"
Regional music
Abruzzo Aosta Valley Apulia Basilicata Calabria Campania Emilia-Romagna Florence Friuli-Venezia Giulia Genoa Lazio Liguria Lombardy Marche Milan Molise Naples Piedmont Rome Sardinia Sicily Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Tuscany Umbria Veneto Venice

Venice Festival of Contemporary Music (Complete Italian name: Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea della Biennale di Venezia). Founded in 1930 as an adjunct of the older Venice Biennale festival. Some works by Prokofiev and Stravinsky were premiered at the festival. Among composers featured in the first year were William Walton, Manuel De Falla, Zoltán Kodály, Ernest Bloch, Ferruccio Busoni, Arthur Honegger, and Paul Hindemith. Excluding interruptions in WWII, the festival has continued to the present.