Alfredo Casella
Alfredo Casella, (born in Torino July 25 1883, † Rome March 5 1947), was an Italian composer.He entered the conservatory in Paris in 1896 to study piano under Louis Diémer and composition under Gabriel Fauré. Back in Italy during the World War I he began teaching piano at the Accademi di Santa Cecilia in Rome.
In 1923, together with Gabriele D'Annunzio and Gian Francesco Malipiero from Venice, he founded an association to promote the spread of modern italian music, the "Corporation of the New Music".
The generation of the '80 (Alfano, Casella, Malipiero, Pizzetti, Respighi) is really an important step, going to heavily influence the following years, also with important interactions in literature and painting. Casella, who was especially passionate about painting, was therefore able to accumulate an important collection of art.