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Ildebrando Pizzetti
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Pizzetti was a pupil of Tebaldini at the Parma Conservatoire. He was the most respected conservative Italian musician of his generation. He was a noted critic and teacher as well as being a composer and conductor. He was a versatile, prolific and ambitious opera composer and he also wrote incidental music for plays, instrumental and choral works and chamber music. 
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| Pizzetti wrote over twenty operas, collaborating in earlier years with D'Annunzio, with whom he wrote the opera Fedra (Phaedra). His Assassinio nella cattedrale (Murder in the Cathedral) treats a translation T.S. Eliot's play, while his last opera, Clitennestra (Clytemnestra), with a libretto by the composer, was staged at La Scala, Milan, in 1965. Pizzetti's choral music, much of which draws its literary source from ancient Greece and Rome, includes a Requiem and a cantata Vanitas vanitatum (Vanity of Vanities) with a text from Ecclesiastes. In addition to various works for piano, Pizzetti left two string quartets, as well as interesting duo sonatas for violin and for cello and piano.
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