Carlo Adolfo Cantù (21 January 1875,

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-1942) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

. He studied music composition at the

Turin Conservatory The Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, also known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi or Conservatorio Torino and more commonly known in English as the Turin Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Turin, Italy. It should not be confu ...

with Giovanni Bolzoni and is best known for his

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''Ettore Fieramosca'' which premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin in 1921.

Sources

*''La musica italiana nel Novecento'' by Roberto Zanetti, page 142 1875 births 1942 deaths Italian classical composers Italian opera composers Italian male opera composers Turin Conservatory alumni {{italy-composer-stub