Fausto Torrefranca ( Vibo Valentia, 1 February 1883 –

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, 26 November 1955) Italian

musicologist Musicology is the academic, research-based study of music, as opposed to musical composition or performance. Musicology research combines and intersects with many fields, including psychology, sociology, acoustics, neurology, natural sciences, f ...

and

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. Torrefranca studied in

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and in

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, he was also the music librarian at the conservatories in

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and in

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. He taught at the Catholic University of Milan and at the University of Florence. Torrefranca's best-known works and essays include: *''Le origini delle musica'' (The Origins of Music) (1907) *''

Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini#Operas, his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he ...

e l'opera internazionale'' (G.P and International Opera) (1912) *''Le origini italiane del romanticismo musicale'' (The Italian Origins of Musical Romanticism) (1930)

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Torrefranca, Fausto 1883 births 1955 deaths Italian music critics Italian male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Academic staff of the University of Florence 20th-century Italian musicologists Music librarians