Paolo Litta

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Paolo Litta (7 May 1871, Stockholm – 8 May 1931, Fiesole{{cite web |url= https://www.sidm.it/index.php/it/convegni-sidm/27-sezione-convegni/sezione-convegni-sidm/186-2015-xxii-convegno-annuale-sidm-xxii-annual-conference-of-sidm |title= (2015) XXII Convegno annuale SIdM - Perugia |author= |website= Società Italiana di Musicologia|date= 23 July 2020 }}) was an Italian composer. He was of mixed Italian and Swedish heritage. He was married to the Italian opera singer, Ida Isori{{#tag:ref|As stated by Richard Batka, Paolo Litta described Ida Isori and her role as a bel canto singer in a form of proses by Gothe: Celle-ci a beaucoup appris; Elle nous enseignera à son tour les secrets de son art (She learned a lot; She will in turn teach us the secrets of her art).{{cite book |last= Batka|first= Richard |author-link= Richard Batka |date= 1913 |title= L'Aria Ancienne : Ida Isori et son Art du Bel-Canto |url= https://archive.org/details/lariaancienneida00batk_0/page/26/mode/2up |location= Paris |publisher= Costallat & Cie |page= 26 |language= French}}|group=n}}, and dedicated the work, Le Lac d’Amour, to her. Litta was known for having a dispute with Valentine de Saint-Point on the possibility that some ideas in de Saint-Point's La Métachorie were copied from his work, la Déesse Nue.{{cite book |author= |date= 1990 |title= Satie the Composer (Music in the 20th Century) |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=QJ9OAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120 |publisher= Cambridge University Press |page= 120 |isbn= 978-0521350372}} Relatively unknown even in Italian records such as the supplementary material{{cite book |last= Schmidl |first= Carlo |author-link= :it:Carlo Schmidl |date= 1937 |title= Supplemento al Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=VyIKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA478 |publisher= Sonzogno |page= 478 |language= Italian}} for Dizionario Universale dei Musicisti by Carlo Schmidl, La Morte di Cleopatra was his noticeable work to the public until his death.