Bixio Cherubini (27 March 1899 – 14 December 1987) was an Italian lyricist, playwright and poet.

Life and career

Born in

Leonessa :''Leonessa is also the name of a ''frazione'' of Bassano Romano.'' Leonessa is a town and ''comune'' in the far northeastern part of the Province of Rieti in the Lazio region of central Italy. Its population in 2008 was around 2,700. Situated in ...

, Cherubini was a descendant of composer

Luigi Cherubini Luigi Cherubini ( ; ; 8 or 14 SeptemberWillis, in Sadie (Ed.), p. 833 1760 – 15 March 1842) was an Italian Classical and Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the gre ...

. He started composing poems and lyrics during the

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, in which he enlisted as a

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. After working several years in Rome as a Poste italiane employee, in 1927 he moved to Milan to focus on songwriting. Around this time he formed a successful professional relationship with

Cesare Andrea Bixio Cesare Andrea Bixio (11 October 18965 March 1978) was an Italian composer. He was one of the most popular Italian songwriters of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Bixio was born in Naples, Italy. His hits included Vivere; Mamma; Parlami d'amore, M ...

, with whom he wrote classics such as "Tango delle capinere", "La canzone dell'amore", "Violino tzigano", "Trotta cavallino", "

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".Antonio Virgilio Savona; Michele Lo Straniero. "Cherubini, Bixio". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. During

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, Cherubini was active as a partisan with the Val Malchirolo brigade. After the war, while sporadically working with Bixio and other composers, he started a long and fruitful professional association with , with whom he composed dozens of hits including "Vola colomba", the winning song of the second edition of the

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, "Campanaro", "Marieta monta in gondola", "Campane di Santa Lucia". Bixio was also active as a playwright, specialized in

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