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in 1876, the son of German painter August Wolf and Emilia
Ferrari, from Venice. He added his mother's maiden-name, Ferrari, to his surname in 1895. Although he studied piano from an early age, music was not the primary passion of his young life. As a teenager Wolf-Ferrari wanted to be a painter like
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Wolf-Ferrari now began transforming the wild and witty farces of the 18th-century
Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni into comic operas. The resulting works were musically eclectic, melodic, and utterly hilarious; every single one became an international success. In fact, until the outbreak of World
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World War I, however, was a nightmare for Wolf-Ferrari. The young composer, who had been dividing his time between Munich and Venice, suddenly found his two countries at war with each other. With the outbreak of the War, he moved to
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At age 19, Wolf-Ferrari left the conservatory and traveled home to Venice. There he worked as a choral conductor, married, had a son called
Federico Wolf-Ferrari, and met both
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intermezzo) although he is generally thought of as probably the finest writer of
Italian comic opera of his time. His works often recall the
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As well as his operas, Wolf-Ferrari wrote a number of instrumental works, mainly at the very beginning and very end of his career. Only his
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War I, Wolf-Ferrari's operas were among the most performed in the world. In 1902 he became professor of composition and director of the
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