Italy On This Day

Baroque musician also contributed to science As well as composing for violin, Tartini established a new technique for playing Giuseppe Tarti...

The productive life of a Renaissance man with many strings to his bow Sylvano Bussotti was described as a modern Renaissance man The multi-t...

Musical member of the Acton family was born in Naples Carlo Acton was the nephew of the former PM of Naples, Sir John Acton Opera composer C...

Late Renaissance church musician wrote madrigal comedies to entertain audiences Vecchi mixed sacred music with pieces written for entertainm...

Baroque musician known for his sense of humour Leonardo Leo wrote or contributed to more than 70 operas, mainly comic A prolific composer of...

Worked on major scores including The Godfather and Fellini’s Amarcord Carlo Savina conducting in during his  time working in TV and radio i...

Politician’s son gave up legal practice to write movie scores Piccioni gave up a career as a lawyer to compose film music Pianist, conductor...

Brilliant musician could both perform and write beautiful music Torelli is ranked alongside Arcangelo Corelli as a developer of the Baroque ...

Pioneer of Italian film music left catalogue of classic songs Cesare Andrea Bixio Cesare Andrea Bixio, the composer behind such class...

Writer and musician created one of the most popular operas of all time Ruggero Leoncavallo Ruggero Leoncavallo, the composer of the ...