Alberto Favara, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Italian ethnomusicologist
Date of Birth: 01-Mar-1863
Place of Birth: Salemi, Sicily, Italy
Date of Death: 29-Sep-1923
Profession: composer
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Alberto Favara
- Alberto Favara (1863-1923), an Italian enthnomusicologist, is one of the pioneers of the scholarly study of Sicilian folk music.
- He studied at the Palermo music conservatory and later in Milan.
- In 1895 he became a music professor at the Palermo conservatory.
- In 1907 he published Canti della terra e del mare di Sicilia (Songs of the land and sea of Sicily), followed in 1921 by an additional collection of Canti popolari siciliani (Sicilian Folk Songs).
- Favara was also the composer of miscellaneous vocal works and instrumental pieces for orchestra and chamber groups.
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