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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 February 2010
Among the Musicians in Umberto Grossato's band, which appeared regularly in cafés and restaurants around Venice in the 1920's, playing on board the ferry which at that time plied between Venice and Mestre, and occasionally even in the prestigious Café Pedrocchi in Padova, was the bandleader's young son Brunetto, a child-prodigy whose violin-playing did much to increase the popularity of the band. Ever since his grandfather had given him a violin when he was four, with a nail put in its neck to mark a left-hand position, he had tried to live up to his grandfather's dictum that ‘even if you later become the greatest of gangsters, you will still end up in heaven if you are a violinist.’
1 Most of Maderna's writings have recently been collected, and the literature on him considerably enlarged, in Bruno Madema: document, edited by MBaroni, ario and Dalmonte, Rossana (Milan: Edizione Suvini Zerboni, 1985)Google Scholar. Previously the most important item was the interview with Leonardo Pinzauti: ‘Musicistid'oggi: venti colloqui’, published by ERI (RAI Editions) 1978, pages 205–212.
2 Mila, Massimo: Maderna: Musicista Europeo, published by Einaudi (Turin) 1976 Google Scholar.
3 Luciano Berio: Intervista sulla musica, edited by Dalmonte, Rossana, published by Laterza (Rome-Bari) 1981, pages 54–55 Google Scholar; published in English in Luciano Berio: Two Interviews with Dalmonte, Rossana and Varga, Balint Andr's, published by Marion Boyars (New York and London), 1985, page52 Google Scholar.