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Bruno Maderna: from the Cafe Pedrocchi to Darmstadt

1985; UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL FLUMINENSE; Issue: 155 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0040298200021835

1980-542X

Raymond Fearn,

Italian Fascism and Post-war Society

Among the Musicians in Umberto Grossato's band, which appeared regularly in cafés and restaurants around Venice in the 1920's, playing on board the ferry which at that time plied between Venice and Mestre, and occasionally even in the prestigious Café Pedrocchi in Padova, was the bandleader's young son Brunetto, a child-prodigy whose violin-playing did much to increase the popularity of the band. Ever since his grandfather had given him a violin when he was four, with a nail put in its neck to mark a left-hand position, he had tried to live up to his grandfather's dictum that ‘even if you later become the greatest of gangsters, you will still end up in heaven if you are a violinist.’