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The Venice Festival of Contemporary Music (Italian: Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea della Biennale di Venezia) was 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 World War II, the festival has continued to the present.
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