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...more days to finish Lucrezia when he died of heart disease. Elsa Respighi promised to write the last 42 pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...
Three years after he wrote the Fountains, Respighi married one of his pupils, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo, a quiet, mysterious person, part Aztec. She used to compose too, but now she just sings his songs, uses her Indian intuition to help order his career. Their villa high on the outskirts of Rome is named for the second Roman poem - "The Pines...
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