Biography of Bruno Barilli

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14 December 1880 15 April 1952 Musician, musicologist and composer, essayist, journalist and writer, Bruno Barilli was born in Fano (Pesaro) on 14 December 1880. He studied at the Conservatory of Parma: the cultural narrowness in those years marks the city makes him go to Munich in 1901, at the Dirigentschule, where it can improve his studies in conducting with the great Felix Mottl and study composition with Gluth and Thuille. Later in Munich is reached by his brother Latino, painter. Always in Munich Barilli will know Vb Pavlovic, nephew of King Peter Karagjorgjevic, which will join together in marriage and with whom he had a daughter, Milena. In the years between 1912 and 1915 collaborates with "Forum", "Corriere della sera" and "Resto del carlino", with reportage about the Balkan wars. From 1915 are various periodicals which lends his advice as a music critic. In this period wrote two works: "Medusa" (1914, represented only in 1938 in Bergamo) and "Emiral" (1915). He then moved to Rome where, after the first world war, in 1919 is in Group founder of the magazine "La Ronda", in which Babatunde maintains a column entitled "Delirama". In these years is also frequent visitor of the Café Aragno, one of Rome's most important literary gatherings. Later he collaborated in "Literary Italy". His relationship with other artists is testified by numerous portraits (Eleuterio Riccardi, Amerigo Bartoli, Massimo Campigli, Scipio) that return of whimsical and bright person, image Barrels as is his thoughts written on its pages. He devoted himself to writing publishing in 1931 "the land of melodrama," series of short stories for which relies on the collaboration of some artist friends. In 1938 released "Paris", shows his daughter Milena, renowned painter. Other writings are "Delirama" (1924), "the mouse in the violin" (1926), "the Sun trapped" (1941, released after a long trip to Africa), "the traveler" (1946), "The clandestine Lottery" (La loterie clandestine, 1948), "the whims of old man" (1951); published posthumously include "the boot" (1952) and "the book of travels" (1963). He left one fanciful pages of impressions and ramblings, history and memory, characterized by the Baroque magnificence of images and a bizarrely surrealist taste. In the musical chronicles the observation of reality is transformed from a sharp metaphoric language; in the prose of travel impressions are made with patchy dense fragments of paradoxes. The cultural values that form the basis of the records of national and traditional are those with Barilli defense of classical taste and the refusal of the avant-garde experiences. Emilio Cecchi-literary critic and art critic-will define writing Barilli "hail and a few drops of rubies and diamonds". Bruno Barilli died in Rome on April 15, 1952.
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