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Italian composer, musicologist, conductor, and key figure in early 20th-century Italian instrumental music.Ottorino Respighi was born in Bologna, Italy. He studied violin and composition locally before further studies in Russia with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and in Germany. Respighi became professor of composition at the prestigious Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome in 1913, a position he held for most of his life....