IT WAS EARLY IN 1958 WHEN I SAW ILDEBRANDO PlZZETTI. The famous cellist Enrico Mainardi and pianist Carlo Zecchi were to play sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms at the SaIa dei Concert! of the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia in Rome. Both artists were professors at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the national institution for advanced musical studies and concert association with which the Conservatorio shares the 17th-century (ex)-Convento delle Orsoline, a city block in the fashionable Via del Corso, extending from Via dei Greci (Conservatorio) to Via Vittoria (Accademia). ...

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