Finding Aid for the Willie Morris Collection

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Finding Aid for the Willie Morris Collection

Correspondence, annotated manuscripts and other materialas from Yazoo City, Mississippi born author Willie Morris.

173 boxes

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11632685

University of Mississippi

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Scionti, Silvio, 1882-1973

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Silvio Vittore Alberto Scionti was born on November 20, 1882, in Acireale, Sicily, in Italy. In his early years, he studied piano with his uncle, and later studied with Beniamino Cesi at the Palermo Conservatory, and with Florestano Rossomandi at the Royal Conservatory of Naples. Scionti moved to Chicago on the invitation of Rossomandi's friend Enrico Sansoni, a violinist who wanted to start a music school. Another mutual friend of Rossomandi, Eugen d'Albert, recommended Scionti to John James Ha...