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Goffredo Petrassi (16 July 1904 – 3 March 2003) was an Italian composer, conductor, and teacher born in Zagarolo, near Rome. At the age of 15, he began working at a music shop to support his family, which sparked his fascination with music. In 1928, he entered the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome to study organ and composition. His work gained recognition when composer Alfredo Casella conducted his Partita for orchestra at the ISCM festival in Amsterdam in 1934. Petrassi later served as the musical director of the opera house La Fenice and began teaching composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and the Salzburg Mozarteum in 1959. He had many notable students, including Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi, Cornelius Cardew, Ennio Morricone, Karl Korte, Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Kenneth Leighton, and Richard Teitelbaum. He passed away in Rome at the age of 98. Initially, Petrassi's work was part of a movement among Italian composers to establish a national revival in classical music, paralleling the romantic endeavors of composers like Richard Wagner. His early style was characteristically neoclassical, influenced by Bartók, Hindemith, and Stravinsky. In his later years, Petrassi's open musical mind led him to explore various post-Webernian influences and a diverse range of poetic materials, resulting in a remarkable series of

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