Wolf-Ferrari

American  

[vawlf-fer-rah-ree] / ˌvɔlf fɛrˈrɑ ri /

noun

1. Ermanno 1876–1948, Italian composer.

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Wolf-Ferrari British  

/ ˈvɔlfferˈraːri /

noun

1. Ermanno (erˈmanno). 1876–1948, Italian composer born of a German father, in Germany from 1909. His works, mainly in a lyrical style, include operas, such as The Jewels of the Madonna (1911) and Susanna's Secret (1909)

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Example Sentences

Included in this catalogue are the familiar intermezzos from that perennial double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci, and less well-known interludes by Cilea, Catalani and Wolf-Ferrari.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house.

From Time Magazine Archive

For Lehar and Wolf-Ferrari in the early twentieth century, read II Divo and Andre Rieu in the twenty-first.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall

Whether or not Wolf-Ferrari got the subject of "I Giojelli della Madonna" from the sources drawn on by his predecessors, I do not know.

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

He liked Wolf-Ferrari pretty well; the modern he was really crazy about was Montemezzi.

From Mary Wollaston by Webster, Henry Kitchell