Luigi Perrachio

Luigi Perrachio was an Italian composer.

Life Luigi Perrachio was born in Turin, Piedmont, in the Kingdom of Italy, on 28 May 1883 (the same city and year as his later friend and colleague Alfredo Casella), to Ludovico Perrachio and Luisa née Elia, both amateur pianists.

In 1908, he completed his legal studies at the University of Turin. He died there on 6 September 1966. In 1918, Guido M. Gatti introduced Perrachio in La Critica Musicale as an important unknown, unpublished talent; and in a review of Nove poemetti (Nine Little Poems), Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco writes that, "finally! Luigi Perrachio has published some of his piano pieces: more compelled by the affectionate pressures of his friends than by the impulse of his own will." Giorgio Pestelli (Perrachio's great-nephew) and Flavio Testi.

Other musical activity Perrachio wrote frequently for the journals Il Pianoforte and La Rassegna musicale. Il re guardiano d'oche [The Goose-Guarding King] (Milan: Ricordi, 1922). Venticinque Preludi [Twenty-Five Preludes] (Milan: Ricordi, 1929).

For harp Tre pezzi [Three Pieces] (Milan: Ricordi, 1926).

Selected written works L'opera pianistica di C. Debussy [The Pianistic Works of Claude Debussy] (Milan, 1924). Il Clavicembalo ben temperato di J. S. Bach [J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier] (Milan, 1926). Trattato d'armonia [Teatise on Harmony] (Rome, 1927). Bele fije e galantin: Personaggi della canzone popolare piemontese [Beautiful Girls and Gallant Boys: Characters of Piedmontese Folksong] (Turin, 1951). I principi fondamentali della composizione musicale [Fundamental Principles of Musical Composition] (Rome, 1955).