Ottorino Respighi, a composer featured on this album, joined the orchestra of the Teatro Comunale in Bologna at the young age of 17.
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Guido Santórsola, a composer on this album, performed his own violin and piano compositions for the first time with Pietro Mascagni, a renowned Italian composer, accompanying him at the piano.
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Ferruccio Busoni, a composer on this album, was considered an astonishing musical prodigy, admitted to the conservatoire in Vienna at the age of eight.
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Domenico Bartolucci, a composer on this album, became maestro di capella of the Sistine Chapel in 1956 and upheld traditional values of liturgical music.
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Mario Pilati, a composer on this album, won international attention in 1927 with the Coolidge Prize for his Flute Sonata, an award previously given to Stravinsky and Prokofiev.
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Michele Esposito, a composer on this album, led the piano department at the Royal Irish Academy of Music for over 40 years.
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Leone Sinigaglia, a composer on this album, died of a fatal heart attack at the moment of his arrest by Nazi police in Turin in 1944.
