Signed postcard photograph.

PIZZETTI, Ildebrando 1880-1968.

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Inscribed to the Colombian musicologist Otto de Greiff (1903-1995) and dated Rome November 22, 1936. With autograph envelope addressed to de Greiff. Envelope worn and with file holes.

Pizzetti, Italian composer, conductor and critic, "was the most respected and influential of the more conservative Italian musicians of his generation." "... In later life Pizzetti increasingly withdrew from 'advanced' musical circles, until 1932 he joined with Respighi, Zandonai and other reactionaries in signing a notorious manifesto, published in several Italian newspapers, attacking the more forward-looking trends of the time and recommending a return to tradition (he later, at least partly, recanted). Meanwhile he had become director (1924) of the Milan Conservatory, whence he moved in 1936 to Rome to take the advanced composition course at the Accademia di S Cecilia (president, 1947 to 1952; retired 1958). He conducted more often from about 1930 onwards, in the Americas as well as in Europe, and continued also to write music criticism & notably in La rassegna musicale (1932&47) and the Corriere della sera (from 1953). He remained active well into the 1960s." Grove online

Item ID: 20112

$375.00