Word: pizetti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...continent. This is attended to by Administrator Pablo F. Barbat; for the coming season he has secured the services of Gigli, Lauri-Volpi, Didur, Pinza, and Mme. Serafin-Rakowska of the Metropolitan; and of Maria Olczewska, Benvenuto Franci, Otto Wolf from various European companies. He plans to present Ildebrando Pizetti's new opera Fra Gherardo...
Paris recently had an opportunity to hear a new opera, Phaedre?book by D'Annunzio and music by the modernist composer, Pizetti. As a piece of dramatturgy the opera was voted dull. But the music was praised loudly as a lovely bit of classical and archaic beauty. The composer is above all things a scholar, who, working his way into new harmonic textures, gives himself, at the same time, to an ardent study of the music of antiquity. He is a great authority on the Greek modes, and uses them with vast skill and charm...
...Pizetti is the philosopher of the new school of Italian composers. Italian musicians are becoming serious and profound. A new spirit has come over them. This is well illustrated by a spectacular disturbance which marked the opening of the Scala season two years...
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