PIZZETTI, Ildebrando
b Parma, 20 September 188
d Rome, 13 February 1968, aged eighty-seven

His father was a piano teacher. Pizzetti attended the Reggio Emilia Gymnasium and in 1895 was enrolled at Parma University, remaining there for six years. His life was spent chiefly in educational posts; after teaching in Parma he moved in 1908 to Florence, becoming director at the Instituto Musicale Cherubini from 1917 to 1924. In 1924 he was appointed director of the Milan Conservatory, then he moved to Rome, to take the chair of composition at the Academia Sta Cecilia from 1936 until his retirement in 1960.

1904 (24)

Three Symphonic Preludes to Oedipus Rex

1906 (26)

String Quartet in A major

1909-12 (29-32)

Phaedra, opera

1914 (34)

Sinfonia del Fuoco

1915-21 (35-41)

Deborah and lael, opera

1918 (38)

Violin Sonata in A minor and A major

1921 (41)

Cello Sonata in F major

19Z2 (42)

Lo straniero, opera

Requiem

1925 7 (45 7)

Fra Gherardo, opera

1928 (48)

Concerto dell'estate

1929 (49)

Rondo veneziano, for orchestra

1930 (50)

Piano Concerto

1931-5 (51-5)

Orseolo, opera

1933-4 (53-5)

Cello Concerto

1938-42 (58-62)

L'Oro, opera

1940 (60)

Symphony in A major

1942 (62)

Piano Sonata

1944 (64)

Violin Concerto

1949 (69)

Vanna Lupa, opera

1950 (70)

Ifigenia, opera

1953 (73)

Cagliostro, opera

1958 (78)

Murder in the Cathedral, opera (on T. S. Eliot's play)