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Ottorino Respighi
Italian composer, musicologist and conductor.
Born July 9th, 1879 in Bologna. [ref]
Died April 18th, 1936 at 56 years old in Rome (heart failure). [ref]
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel