Paolo Serrao

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Paolo Serrao (b. Filadelfia (Catanzaro), 1830; d. Naples, 17 March 1907), was a distinguished and influential Italian teacher of musical theory and composition at Naples.

As professor of composition at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatorio at Naples, over many years, he taught many famous Italian musicians, notably Giuseppe Martucci, Umberto Giordano, Leopoldo Mugnone, Michele Esposito, Francesco Cilea, Franco Alfano, Luigi Denza and Alessandro Longo.

He wrote a successful opera, Pergolesi, and wrote other concert and sacred music.

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A. Eaglefield-Hull, A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (Dent, London 1924).