Editing Goffredo Petrassi (section)

==Life==
Petrassi was born at [[Zagarolo]], near [[Rome]]. At the age of 15 he began to work at a music shop to supply his family's financial needs, and became fascinated by music. In 1928, he entered the [[Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia|Santa Cecilia Conservatory]] in Rome to study [[organ (music)|organ]] and [[musical composition|composition]] for five years under Vincenzo di Donato.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Greene |first=David Mason |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC |title=Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers |date=1985 |publisher=Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. |isbn=978-0-385-14278-6 |page=1336 |language=en |quote=In 1925 Petrassi was able to study composition with one Vincenzo di Donato and was a pupil from 1928 to 1933...}}</ref> In 1933, composer [[Alfredo Casella]] conducted Petrassi's ''Partita'' for orchestra at the ISCM festival in [[Amsterdam]].

From 1940 to 1960 Petrassi was professor of composition at the [[Santa Cecilia Conservatory]]; later, he also became musical director of the opera house [[La Fenice]], and from 1960 to 1978 he taught in the master courses in composition at the [[Accademia di Santa Cecilia]].<ref>Restagno, Enzo (ed.) (1992). ''Petrassi''. Turin: EDT, pp. 41–42. {{ISBN|88-7063-044-7}}</ref> He was also a teacher at the [[Salzburg Mozarteum]]. Petrassi had many famous students, including [[Franco Donatoni]], [[Aldo Clementi]], [[Cornelius Cardew]], [[Ennio Morricone]], [[Karl Korte]], [[Boris Porena]], [[Norma Beecroft]], [[Mario Bertoncini]], [[Ernesto Rubin de Cervin]], [[Eric Salzman]], [[Kenneth Leighton]], [[Peter Maxwell Davies]], [[Michael Dellaira]], [[Armando Santiago]], and [[Richard Teitelbaum]]. {{See LMST|Goffredo|Petrassi}} Petrassi died in [[Rome]] at the age of 98.