WOLF-FERRARI, ERMANNO ), Italian composer, was born at Venice on Jan. 12, 1876, his father being a distinguished German painter and his mother an Italian. He studied with Rheinberger at Munich, and on his return to Venice brought out his oratorio, La Sulamite. He then went to Germany and revised his early opera, Cinderella, for production at Bremen in 1902. This was followed by Le dame curiose and I quattro rusteghi (1996), both of which were performed at Munich. His
first great success came with ll segreto di Susanna, a one-act comedy, first given at Munich in 1999 and quickly taken up in other places. Still more popular was The Jewels of the Madonna (Berlin 1911), which gave him an international reputation. He has also written a chamber symphony, Rispetti for soprano, op. 11, and a pianoforte quintet (1929). From 1992-12 Wolf-Ferrari was director of the Liceo Benedetto Marcello in Venice.