Bossi, Renzo (1883–1965)

Italian composer, son of the composer and organist Enrico Bossi. He studied under his father at the Liceo Benedetto Marcello in Venice and took a composition prize in 1902, when he went to Leipzig, Germany, to continue studying piano, organ, and conducting, the last under Artur Nikisch. He was conductor at several German opera houses before he went to Milan as assistant conductor at La Scala. He was professor of composition at Parma from 1913 and at Milan from 1916.

Works Opera Rosa rossa (after Oscar Wilde; Parma, 1940), Passa la ronda! (Milan, 1919), La notte del mille, Volpino il calderaio (after Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew; Milan, 1925), Proserpina.

Orchestral and chamber symphonies, Sinfoniale, Fantasia sinfonica, and Bianco e nero for orchestra; violin concerto; chamber music.