Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari was an important Italian composer of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His comic operas may be his best-known works, but none have endured in the standard repertory. Toward the latter twentieth century his Op. 26 Violin Concerto (1901) began gaining some currency, as well as chamber works like Piano Trios, Opp. 5 and 7, and the Idillio-concertino, Op. 15. Wolf-Ferrari was born in Venice on January 12, 1876, to a Bavarian father and an Italian mother. He showed unusual talent on the piano in his childhood, but gradually felt drawn toward p...