Pietro Magri (May 10, 1873 in

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– July 24, 1937 in

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) was an Italian

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, conductor and organist.

Life

Magri studied in the seminary of

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where he became priest and taught singing from 1889 to 1894. After a short appointment in

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as Maestro of the

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in 1898 he moved to

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. There he founded the magazine Il Ceciliano. In the next years he moved to Lecce (1910), Molfetta and Vercelli (1912) and finally to Oropa (1919) where he remained until his death in 1937.

Compositions

*Missa S. Francesco di Sales *Missa defunctorum simplex *Missa in homorem B. Virginis Auxilium christianorum *Missa Joseph fili David

Sources

*De Angelis, Alberto: L'Italia musicale d'oggi, dizionario dei musicisti (1918)

External links

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