Sylvano Bussoti, a famously hard-to-perform composer, was born in October 1, 1931 in Florence. Examples of his use of graphic notation in his pieces, often reflecting his personal life, include Lorenzaccio and La passion selon Sade. A child prodigy he entered Florence Conservatory at 9, wherein he developed an opposition to modernism. He was famously a homosexual and partook in other academic disciplines including painting, graphic art, and journalism.