GIANNINI, VITTORIO
(1903–1966)
VITTORIO GIANNINI (Born in Philadelphia, 1903 — Died in New York, 1966) Vittorio Giannini began his music career by taking violin lessons with his mother at their home in Philadelphia. At the age of nine he was awarded a scholarship to the Royal Conservatory in Milan, Italy, where he studied composition with Trucco. He returned to New York in 1917 where he completed his graduate studies at the Juilliard School, studying violin with Hans Letz and Albert Spaulding, and composition with Rubin…