Ildebrando Pizzetti

Italian composer of classical music (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968), he taught at the Conservatory in Florence (director from 1917 to 1923), directed the Milan Conservatory from 1923, and was Respighi's successor at the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome from 1936 to 1958. One of his pupils was , whose composition "Ippolito gioca" was a homage to his former teacher (Ippolito was the name of Ildebrando Pizzetti's s…