Goffredo Petrassi

Acclaimed as the most significant Italian composer of the mid-20th century (along with Luigi Dallapiccola), Goffredo Petrassi was born in Zagarolo in 1904, the son of Elissio and Erminia Petrassi. He didn't begin scoring Italian documentary films until the 1940s; unfortunately, his massive output of classical works and teaching commitments left ...