Renato de Grandis (born October 24, 1927 in Venice, Italy - died December 2, 2008) was an Italian musicologist and composer. He first studied composition and musicology in his home town at the conservatory "Benedetto Marcello" and attended master classes in Siena from 1951. Already in 1945 he received the first prize of the Italian Rundfunk for young composers and in 1953 the first Italian national prize for composition. Since the mid-1950s de Grandis had lived and worked mainly in Darmstadt. After completing his training, he dealt especially with the serial and the twelve…
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