Paolo Litta (7 May 1871,
Stockholm
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– 8 May 1931,
Fiesole
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Sin ...
) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori, and dedicated the work, ''Le Lac d’Amour'', to her. Litta was known for having a dispute with
Valentine de Saint-Point
Valentine de Saint-Point (''née'' Anna Jeanne Valentine Marianne Glans de Cessiat-Vercell; 16 February 1875, Lyon – 28 March 1953, Cairo) was a French writer, poet, painter, playwright, art critic, choreographer, lecturer and journalist. She ...
on the possibility that some ideas in de Saint-Point's ''La Métachorie'' were copied from his work, ''la Déesse Nue''. Relatively unknown even in Italian records such as the supplementary material
for Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti by
Carlo Schmidl, ''La Morte di Cleopatra'' was his noticeable work to the public until his death.
Compositions
* La Déesse Nue (in addition to a separate book describing the musical work)
* Le Lac d'Amour
* La Morte di Cleopatra
* Der Tod als Fiedler
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1871 births
1931 deaths
Italian composers
20th-century classical composers
Swedish emigrants to Italy