Aldo Finzi

Aldo Finzi was a italian composer, born in Milan on February 4, 1897. Because of his Jewish origin he and his family lived the growing anti semitism in Italy: from an annulled prize to his opera in 1937's La Scala Competition, to the effect of the anti-jewish laws introduced by the Mussolini's fascist government in 1938 ("Leggi Razziali", Racial Laws). During the Nazi occupation that followed, Finzi went into hiding, working anonymously, or under alias name, succeding to escape mass deportations in hair-raising ways. He died of a heart attack on February 7, 1945.