was a sculptor; while his maternal grandmother, a descendant of the ancient Venetian family Priuli Bon, played the piano and sang, including the Lieder of her own day (among her music Nono was astonished to find an early edition of Hugo Wolf’s Italienische Lieder, and Montezuma by Sacchini; Nono 1987, p. 480). Both his mother and his father, an engineer by profession, were amateur pianists who enjoyed playing some of the major classics (including Boris Godunov by Modest Mussorgsky