Gian Francesco Malipiero (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdʒam franˈtʃesko maliˈpjɛːro]; 18 March 1882 - 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. His father separated from his mother in 1893 and took ...
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Gian Francesco Malipiero (Italian pronunciation: [ˌdʒam franˈtʃesko maliˈpjɛːro]; 18 March 1882 - 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in a consistent manner. His father separated from his mother in 1893 and took Gian Francesco to Trieste, Berlin and eventually to Vienna. The young Malipiero and his father broke up their relationship bitterly, and in 1899 Malipiero returned to his mother's home in Venice, where he entered the Liceo Musicale.
After stopping counterpoint lessons with the composer, organist and pedagogue Marco Enrico Bossi, Malipiero continued studying on his own by copying out music by such composers as Claudio Monteverdi and Girolamo Frescobaldi from the Biblioteca Marciana, in Venice, thereby beginning a lifelong commitment to Italian...
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