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Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno, 1876-1948.
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Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
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Wolf-Ferrari, Ermanno (1876-1948): Sämtliche Musikautographen in der BSB
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The German-Italian composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, actually Hermann Friedrich Wolf, was the son of the German painter August Wolf and the Venetian Emilia Ferrari. Wolf-Ferrari studied at the Akademie der Tonkunst in Munich with Josef Rheinberger. After several years in Italy he returned to Munich. His highly successful comic operas 'Le donne curiose' (1903), 'I quattro rusteghi' (1906) and 'Il segreto di Susanna' (1909), with which his name is still associated, were all premiered in Munich. After severe creative crises Wolf-Ferrari turned more to instrumental music in his later years. Wolf-Ferrari suffered psychologically under German and Italian fascism. After the Second World War he returned to his native Venice, where he died in 1948. For decades the BSB had been single-mindedly collecting the work of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, whose life and work is so closely connected with the city of Munich, when it achieved a particularly great success at a London auction in December 2000: it purchased a huge collection of the composer's handwritten music manuscripts with a total of over 3600 pages. Thus, the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek now has a unique Wolf Ferrari collection, which also contains many unknown treasures. (from the website)
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