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Show Distinguished Composer Dead. NEWARK, N. ; J., May 12.-rarlo 1 Brizzi, who came of a distinguished Italian family of composers and 1 was the author of several successful operas, is dead. For the last six years he lived in this city. For half an hour before he passed away his son sat at the bedside bed-side and played the dying man's favorite favor-ite airs. While the violinist was playing play-ing a simple folk song, with a gentle harmony and plaintive melody, his father raised his head from the pillow and reached out as if to take the instrument in-strument from the hands of the player. Then he sank back again on the bed, dead. Pneumonia was the cause of death.. .Brizzi wrote, among others, the opera "Christophero Colombo," in which Adelina Pattl sang when the work was produced for the Chicago exhibition. ex-hibition. The prayer at the funeral of King Humbert was composed by Brizzi. |