biography
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Pizzetti, Ildebrando
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pronunciation:
[pitsetee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1968)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Parma, N Italy. He studied at Parma Conservatory, and in 1908 became professor at the Instituto Musicale, Florence. He was director there from 1917 until 1924, when he became director of the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, Milan. He composed extensively in all forms, winning a particular reputation for opera with Fedra (1912) and Debora e Jaele (1923). In 1936 he became professor at the Accademia di Sancta Cecilia, Rome. |
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