Cecilia Seghizzi

Cecilia Seghizzi (5 September 1908 – 22 November 2019) was an Italian composer, painter, teacher and supercentenarian.

Biography Cecilia Seghizzi was the daughter of composer and choirmaster (19 January 1873 – 5 January 1933), one of Italy's most popular composers. After coming back to Italy after being exiled to the refugee camp of Wagna in Austria during World War I, Cecilia began studying the violin with Alfredo Lucarini and graduated with honors from the Conservatory "G. Verdi" in Milan. In her thirties she alternated between concerts and teaching in middle school and music school.

Style Her music catalog included more than 130 compositions, among which many are choral music. She also composed a number of pieces for voice and piano, a range of chamber music compositions, a concert for flute, clarinet and strings, as well as pieces for piano, including didactic pieces like Impressioni. She died on 22 November 2019, aged 111.

Selected works Sonata for Oboe and Piano (1963) By night flute, soprano and piano (1979) Concertino for horn and strings (1981) Divertimento for violin and piano (1982) Waltz for flute and piano (1984)