How to Pronounce Alberto Favara
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Mar 01, 1863 Salemi, Sicily, Italy Died on 29 Sep 1923 (aged 60)
Italian ethnomusicologist
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About Alberto Favara
- Alberto Favara (1863-1923), an Italian enthnomusicologist, is one of the pioneers of the scholarly study of Sicilian folk music.
- He studied at the Palermo music conservatory and later in Milan.
- In 1895 he became a music professor at the Palermo conservatory.
- In 1907 he published Canti della terra e del mare di Sicilia (Songs of the land and sea of Sicily), followed in 1921 by an additional collection of Canti popolari siciliani (Sicilian Folk Songs).
- Favara was also the composer of miscellaneous vocal works and instrumental pieces for orchestra and chamber groups.
