Italian composer
Silvio Tanzi (1879 – 29 November 1909) was an Italian composer and music critic. He was born in Sassello and died in Milan.[1]
He was the brother of writer Drusilla Tanzi who was married to Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale.[2]
In the poetry by Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale remembered his wife's brother in the poem Your brother died young, thirteenth text of the first book of Xenia :
| “Your brother died young; you were
the ruffled girl who looks
at me 'posing' in the oval of a portrait.
He wrote unpublished music, unheard of,
now buried in a trunk or go
to the màcero. Perhaps
someone unwittingly reinvents them, if what is written is written.
I loved him without having known him.
Apart from you, no one remembered it.
I didn't do research: now it's useless.
After you I remained the only one
for whom he existed. But it is possible,
you know, to love a shadow, shadows ourselves. "
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