Marliani, Count Aurelio
(1803–1849)> COMPOSER
Marliani, Count Aurelio , DIT Aurèle (1803, Lombardy; June 1849, Bologna), composer, was born into a noble and wealthy family and spent his inheritance in the cause of the Carbonari organization dedicated to establishing a republic in Italy. His political activities obliged him to flee to safety in Paris in 1830, where he supported himself by giving singing lessons. After the Revolution of 1848, he returned to Italy to take up arms, and he was killed during the Austrian attack on Bologna…