Wolf-Ferrari

American  

[vawlf-fer-rah-ree] / ˌvɔlf fɛrˈrɑ ri /

noun

1. Ermanno 1876–1948, Italian composer.

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Wolf-Ferrari British  

/ ˈvɔlfferˈraːri /

noun

1. Ermanno (erˈmanno). 1876–1948, Italian composer born of a German father, in Germany from 1909. His works, mainly in a lyrical style, include operas, such as The Jewels of the Madonna (1911) and Susanna's Secret (1909)

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Example Sentences

Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house.

From Time Magazine Archive

Included in this catalogue are the familiar intermezzos from that perennial double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, and less well-known interludes by Cilea, Catalani and Wolf-Ferrari.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Lehar and Wolf-Ferrari in the early twentieth century, read II Divo and Andre Rieu in the twenty-first.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

It is Mozart's media and Mozart's style which Wolf-Ferrari adopts, but there are traces also of the idioms of others who have been universal musicians rather than specifically Italian.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

He liked Wolf-Ferrari pretty well; the modern he was really crazy about was Montemezzi.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell