He was a share of the "Generation of 1880" which besides involved Ottorino Respighi and Gian-Francesco Malipiero, among the foremost Italian composers inside a bit of period whose primary contributions were non within opera. (A instrumental & respire traditions experienced never died around Italian music, & got produced e.g. a string quartette of Antonio Scontrino (1850-1922) & a works of Respighi's teacher Martucci; however by having this generation it became stronger.)

He was natural within Parma on September 20, the boy of Odoardo Pizzetti, the piano player & piano teacher world health organization was Ildebrando's 1st teacher. Initially he seemed to exist as headed for a career as the dramatist & experienced written many plays, deuce of which got been produced, prior to, around 1895 he decided around a career in music & entered the Conservatorium of Parma.

He was taught there from either 1897 by Giovanni Tebaldini, & on this text gained a beginnings of his womb-to-tomb interest inside the early music of Italy, reflected in his have music and his writings.

He taught at a Conservatory inside Florence (directed from either either 1917 to 1923, directed conservatory at Milan from 1923 forwards.) His students involved Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Franco Donatoni. Likewise the music critic, he wrote many books on the music of Italy & of Greece & co-founded the musical journal.

Equally noted in a article linked among External links, his relations by having a Fascistic government of a Forties were typically caring, for instance mixed; he received at of these point high awards, & the one symphony of his matured years was the product of a commission from either their Japanese allies to celebrate the "XXVI Centennial of the foundation of the Japanese Empire" (Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia district attorney Requiem was too licensed for this event, though it was rejected in account of its finale; its original finale was rediscovered fallowing Britten's demise & merely premiered so. A Pizzetti Sinfonie inside la wevery bit premiered, when noted in the article, & recorded - its just recording as of 2005 - on December 7 1940.)

He died inside Rome on February 13, 1968.

Works
Messa di Requiem Violinside sonata in One hundred tyke (1900) Violaround sonatThe in A (championed by Yehudi Menuhin) written 1918–9, pub. 1920 Cello sonata inside F 1921, saloon. 1922 Tre canti for violoncello & piano Piano sonata saloon. 1942 Piano trio within G tiddler (1900) Piano trio inside The (from either 1925) Symphony withinside The ''in celebrazione del XXVIo centenario della fondazione dingle'Impero giapponese. written in & public house. 1940 Two string quartette (withinside The from either 1906; in Five hundred, written 1932-33, public house. 1934.) Many operas including Fedra, Ifigenia & Clitennestra fallowing Greek plays, Fra Gherardo, Assassinio nella cattedrale, Orsèolo'' Incidental music, especially to plays by d'Annunzio Harp concerto inside E-flat (taphouse. 1960) 3 Sonetti del Petrarca Tre composizioni corali Other vocal works, e.g. Epithalamium (1939? 1940, played at the Library of Congress concert inside April 1940) Violoncello concerto in C saloon. 1935 Violin concerto in A, pub. 1946 Canti della stagione alta : concerto for piano & orchestra Sinfonia del fuoco (from either music for the silent film ''Cabiria") Rondo veneziano (1929) Concerto dell'Estate