Claudio Sartori

During World War II, he joined the Italian resistance movement; he was imprisoned by the SS and then released in 1945.

After the war, Sartori started a career as a journalist in Milan writing for the newspaper Popolo di Milano.

Sartori managed to obtain the support and cooperation of many correspondents and was thus able to collect an impressive amount of data from Italian libraries.

In 1959 he was appointed to the Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan, where a few years later in 1965, together with Mariangela Donà, he founded the Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali [it] (URFM), which he directed until his retirement.

His daily hard work was interrupted only on occasion of his appointments as visiting professor at the universities of Buffalo in 1965 and Los Angeles in 1969.