THE Marie WILSON STRING QUARTET
THE name Malipiero appears a good many times in the history of music, and the present representative of the great Venetian family so distinguished was born there himself. As a youngster, he lived in several different parts of Europe, and had no chance of devoting himself to music until he was almost twenty, when he became a pupil of Bossi, in his native city. He is one of the sternly self-critical people who has ruthlessly destroyed aU his earliest work, allowing nothing to be published or performed which he does not consider worthy of his sincere aims.
The String Quartet Rispetti e Strambotti, which might be translated ' Epigrams and Aphorisms,' won a Coolidge prize in 1920, and has always been regarded as a wonderfully successful translation into music of just such ideas as its name conveys.