Aldo Finzi (composer)

Aldo Finzi (Milan, 4 February 1897 – 7 February 1945) was an Italian classical music composer. Biography Aldo Finzi was born to an ancient Jewish family in Milan on February 4, 1897. After completing his classical studies at the Parini high school in Milan, he graduated in law from the University of Pavia. Simultaneously, he graduated in composition as a private student at the Accademia S. Cecilia in Rome. He soon achieved success and fame among young Italian musicians: operas, chamber music, symphonic music, a comic opera “La serenata al vento”, a dramatic work inspired by anti-Semitic persecution, “Shylock”, which remained unfinished and was performed in this form (Milan and Marseille), are among his compositions. At 24, he had become one of the authors whose works were published by Ricordi, while previously his publishers were Fantuzzi and Sonzogno. In the 1931 Ricordi catalogue, his compositions include “Il chiostro” for female voices and orchestra, the symphonic poems “Cirano di Bergerac”, nominated in a competition whose judging panel included Arturo Toscanini and Ildebrando Pizzetti, and “Inni alla notte”, a “Sonata for violin and piano” (now published by Suvini & Zerboni),