Alberto Cantù (1950 – 18 January 2021) was an Italian musicologist and musical critic.
He studied music history at the Conservatorio di Como and was a musical critic for ''Giornale'' from 1976 to 2006. He was a member of the Istituto di studi paganiniani in
Genoa
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, the Istituto di studi pucciniani in
Milan
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, and the Centro studi Felice Romani in
Moneglia.
Works
*''I 24 capricci e i 6 concerti di Paganini'' (1980)
*''Le opere di Paganini'' (1982)
*''Respighi compositore'' (1985)
*''Ottorino Respighi'' (1985)
*''Invito all'ascolto di Paganini'' (1988)
*''La lanterna magica'' (1991)
*''Renato De Barbieri nell'arco del violino'' (1993)
*''Intorno a Locatelli'' (1996)
*''Melodrammi con figure'' (2001)
*''Da Farinelli a Camilleri'' (2003)
*''Yehudi Menuhin l'Orfeo tragico'' (2006)
*''Jascha Heifetz l'Imperatore solo'' (2007)
*''L'universo di Puccini da Le Villi a Turandot'' (2008)
*''David Oistrakh. Lo splendore della coerenza'' (2009)
*''Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. La musica, la grazia, il silenzio'' (2012)
References
External links
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1950 births
2021 deaths
Writers from Genoa
Italian music critics
Italian musicologists
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