Giulio Confalonieri

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Giulio Confalonieri
Confalonieri in Radiocorriere magazine, 1954.
Born	23 May 1896 (1896-05-23) Milan, Italy
Died	29 June 1972 (1972-06-30) (aged 76) Milan, Italy

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

Born in Milan, Confalonieri graduated in letters at the Accademia scientifico-letteraria di Milano [it] and in piano at the Bologna Conservatory. 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 Paul Dukas, and then to London, where he stayed until 1927 teaching piano, performing as a concert pianist, and composing incidental music.^[1]

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.^[1]

Confalonieri wrote several books including a History of Music and a children's novel, Il Cavalier Cuccagna. He won the Bagutta Prize in 1949 with Prigionia di un artista, a monography about Luigi Cherubini. He also directed the singing school of La Scala, founded and directed the "Ettore Pozzoli" International Piano Competition in Seregno, collaborated for years with the radio program Il Contemporaneo and in 1957-8 was a lecturer of Italian opera at the Cincinnati Conservatory.^[1]

Confalonieri died on 29 June 1972, aged 76, following a heart attack.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Teodoro Celli (1982). "Confalonieri, Giulio". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani - Volume 27. Treccani.
^ g.m. (30 June 1972). "Giulio Confalonieri stroncato da infarto". La Stampa.

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1920s	Giovan Battista Angioletti (1927) Giovanni Comisso (1928) Vincenzo Cardarelli (1929)
1930s	Gino Rocca (1930) Giovanni Titta Rosa (1931) Leonida Rèpaci (1932) Raul Radice (1933) Carlo Emilio Gadda (1934) Enrico Sacchetti (1935) Silvio Negro (1936)
1940s	Dario Ortolani (1947) Pier Antonio Quarantotti Gambini (1948) Giulio Confalonieri (1949)
1950s	Vitaliano Brancati (1950) Indro Montanelli (1951) Francesco Serantini (1952) Leonardo Borghese (1953) Giuseppe Marotta (1954) Alfonso Gatto (1955) Giuseppe Lanza (1956) Pier Angelo Soldini (1957) Lorenzo Montano (1958) Italo Calvino (1959)
1960s	Enrico Emanuelli (1960) Giorgio Vigolo (1961) Giuseppe Dessì (1962) Ottiero Ottieri (1963) Tommaso Landolfi (1964) Biagio Marin (1965) Manlio Cancogni (1966) Primo Levi (1967) Piero Chiara (1968) Niccolò Tucci (1969)
1970s	Alberto Vigevani (1970) Piero Gadda Conti (1971) Anna Banti (1972) Sergio Solmi (1973) Gianni Celati (1974) Enzo Forcella (1975) Mario Soldati (1976) Sandro Penna (1977) Carlo Cassola (1978) Mario Rigoni Stern (1979)
1980s	Giovanni Macchia (1980) Pietro Citati (1981) Vittorio Sereni (1982) Giorgio Bassani (1983) Natalia Ginzburg (1984) Francesca Duranti (1985) Leonardo Sciascia (1986) Claudio Magris (1987) Luciano Erba (1988) Luigi Meneghello (1989)
1990s	Fleur Jaeggy (1990) Livio Garzanti (1991) Giorgio Bocca (1992) Giovanni Giudici (1993) Alberto Arbasino (1994) Daniele Del Giudice (1995) Raffaello Baldini (1996) Sergio Ferrero (1997) Giovanni Raboni (1998) Fabio Carpi (1999)
2000s	Andrea Zanzotto Mariano Bargellini (2000) Serena Vitale (2001) Roberto Calasso Giorgio Orelli (2002) Michele Mari Edoardo Sanguineti Eva Cantarella (2003) Franco Cordero (2004) Rosetta Loy (2005) Filippo Tuena Eugenio Borgna (2006) Alessandro Spina (2007) Andrej Longo (2008) Melania Gaia Mazzucco (2009)
2010s	Corrado Stajano (2010) Andrea Bajani (2011) Gianfranco Calligarich and Giovanni Mariotti (2012) Antonella Tarpino (2013) Maurizio Cucchi and Valerio Magrelli (2014) Sandro Veronesi (2015) Paolo Di Stefano and Paolo Maurensig (2016) Vivian Lamarque (2017) Helena Janeczek (2018) Marco Balzano (2019)
2020s	Enrico Deaglio (2020) Giorgio Fontana (2021) Benedetta Craveri (2022) Marco Missiroli (2023) Gianni Biondillo (2024)

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