Giorza, Paolo
(1838–1914)> COMPOSER
Giorza, Paolo (1838, Milan; 4 May 1914, Seattle, Wash.), composer, took his first music lessons from his father and made a specialty of writing ballets because of the popularity of this type of composition in Italy. His sole dramatic work was a failure, Corrado, console di Milano (1860), but the many successes among his 40 choreographic creations more than compensated for this single disaster at Milan. His only title billed at the Opéra was La Maschera ou les nuits de Venise of 1864, and he had…