Career
He is best known for his operas, among them Il sistema della dolcezza (1948), after Edgar Allan Poe"s "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether", and Partita a pugni (1953), about a boxing match. His output also includes chamber music, as well as some symphonic and choral works. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Ildebrando Pizzetti.
