Aspects of Alfano From: Musical Times | Date: January 1, 2002| Author: Sciannameo, Franco | Copyright Musical Times Publications, Ltd. Winter 2002. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Turandot, Mussolini, and the Second String Quartet

FRANCO SCIANNAMEO reappraises the achievement of the little-known Italian composer

THE PHOTOGRAPH REPRODUCED as fig.1 was taken on 23 October 1926 at the Palazzo Chigi in Rome. The occasion was the visit to Prime Minister Benito Mussolini of a group of noted Italian composers. They descended upon the capital from various parts of Italy like 'a bunch of poor believers in search of a patron saint in an increasingly pagan world',...

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