Above: Florence, Italy. Fifty years ago, on May 8, 1976, Valentino Bucchi—composer, music critic, and distinguished teacher in the Italian twentieth-century music scene—died in Rome. Indeed, Bucchi’s life and work resist easy classification. Born in Florence on November 29, 1916, he studied under two towering figures of Italian music, Vito Frazzi (†1975) and Luigi Dallapiccola (†
