Alberto Favara

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Alberto Favara (1863-1923), an Italian ethnomusicologist, is one of the pioneers of the scholarly study of Sicilian folk music.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J_pHRo7btg0C&dq=%22Alberto+Favara%22+1863&pg=PA126|title=Ethnomusicology: Historical and Regional Studies|year=1993|isbn=9780393033786|publisher=W.W. Norton|editor=Helen Myers|page=126}} He studied at the Palermo Conservatory and later in Milan. In 1895 he became a music professor at the Palermo Conservatory.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} In 1907 he published Canti della terra e del mare di Sicilia (Songs of the land and sea of Sicily), followed in 1921 by an additional collection of Canti popolari siciliani (Sicilian Folk Songs).{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} Favara was also the composer of miscellaneous vocal works and instrumental pieces for orchestra and chamber groups.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}} The full extent of Favara's groundbreaking work as a collector of Sicilian folk songs was not known until 1957, 34 years after his death, when a complete collection of 1,090 folk songs, transcribed into music notation by Favara, were published in the two volume set Corpus di Musichi Populari Siciliane; a work edited by Ottavio Tiby.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5nQhEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Alberto+Favara%22+1863&pg=PT23|title=Studies in Maltese Popular Music|author=Philip Ciantar|year=2021|isbn=9781000379143|publisher=Taylor & Francis}}