I have never quite been able to separate my sadness at the loss of Luigi Nono from a feeling of greater awareness, of happiness and gratitude that he ever existed—and ever existed in our proximity. And despite the loneliness which I share with so many others who loved him, I feel, when I think of him, a unique sense of the triumph of art and a hope that its restless force will endure in times of apparent hopelessness.

Helmut Lachenmann