Silvio Tanzi (1879 – 29 November 1909) was an Italian composer and music critic. He was born in Sassello and died in Milan.[1]

He was the brother of writer Drusilla Tanzi who was married to Nobel laluriet Eugenio Montale.[2]

In the poetry by Eugenio Montale

Eugenio Montale remembered his wife's brother in the poem Your brother died young, thirteenth text of the first book of Xenia :

“Your brother died  young; you were

the ruffled girl who looks

at me 'posing' in the oval of a portrait.

He wrote unpublished music, unheard of,

now buried in a trunk  or go

to the màcero. Perhaps

someone unwittingly reinvents them, if what is written is written.

I loved him without having known him.

Apart from you, no one remembered it.

I didn't do research: now it's useless.

After you I remained the only one

for whom he existed.  But it is possible,

you know, to love a shadow, shadows ourselves. "

References

  1. ↑ "Almanacco Italiano 1911 (parte seconda). Piccola enciclopedia popolare della vita pratica". adamoli.org. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  2. ↑ Ahern, John (1986-02-23). "BETWEEN THE LOVE OF CLIZIA AND MOSCA". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-10-05.
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