Giulio Confalonieri (23 May 1896 - 29 June 1972) was an Italian musician, musicologist, composer and musical critic. Born in

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, Confalonieri graduated in letters at the and in piano at the

Bologna Conservatory The Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini (previously known as the Liceo Musicale di Bologna, and better known in English as the Bologna Conservatory) is a college of music in Bologna, Italy. The conservatory opened on 3 December 1804, as the L ...

. Between 1919 and 1920 he composed his first opera, "Rosaspina", which was eventually staged only in 1939. In 1921 he moved to Paris, where he became friends with

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, and then to London, where he stayed until 1927 teaching piano, performing as a concert pianist, and composing incidental music.

Teodoro Celli Teodoro Celli (1917–1989) was an Italian journalist, writer and music critic. Biography He was born in Parma in 1917. After studying piano and composition in Milan, the city where he grew up and where he graduated in literature, in 1941 he began ...

(1982).
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. ''

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- Volume 27''.

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. Returned to Italy, after a long period of isolation and study, in the late 1930s Confalonieri resumed his activity as a composer, and in 1940, he started collaborating with the magazine ''Settegiorni'' as a musical critic. In 1944 he lost the use of a leg because of an accident, and then focused on writing, collaborating with a large number of publications, notably '' Il Giorno'', '' Oggi'' and '' Epoca''. Confalonieri wrote several books including a ''History of Music'' and a children's novel, '' Il Cavalier Cuccagna''. He won the

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in 1949 with ''Prigionia di un artista'', a monography about

Luigi Cherubini Maria Luigi Carlo Zenobio Salvatore Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethov ...

. He also directed the singing school of

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, founded and directed the "Ettore Pozzoli" International Piano Competition in

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, collaborated for years with the radio program ''Il Contemporaneo'' and in 1957-8 was a lecturer of Italian opera at the

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. Confalonieri died on 29 June 1972, aged 76, following a heart attack.

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