Franco Abbiati (14 September 1898 – 22 January 1981) was an 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 ...

. Abbiati was born in Verdello. He studied composition at the musical high school in Turin. He worked as a music critic for the ''

Corriere della Sera (; ) is an Italian daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 246,278 copies in May 2023. First published on 5 March 1876, is one of Italy's oldest newspapers and is Italy's most read newspaper. Its masthead has remain ...

'' for thirty-six years. The award is named after him.

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1898 births 1981 deaths 20th-century Italian musicologists {{Italy-music-bio-stub