Gian Francesco Malipiero

Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973) was, after Busoni, the first major standard bearer of modernism in Italy and a pioneering scholar in the Italian Baroque, which he first studied in 1902. Converted to modernism around 1914, Malipiero's style moved through futurism into the neo-classic and to a late, eccentric personal style. Malipiero was so prolific that it is by accident that his first string quartet, Rispetti e strambotti (1920) is his best-known work, though the Violin Concerto No. 1 (1932) is also popular. Malipiero wrote 11 symphonies, 8 string quartets, operas, concerti,and other works, and edited music of Monteverdi and Vivaldi.