Filippo Filippi

He wrote for the Milanese music magazine La perseveranza, and was an admirer of and a frequent correspondent with Giuseppe Verdi.

He was born in Vicenza, and received an early training as a musician there, studying piano and organ.

In 1859 he was employed by the Gazzetta musicale di Milano as assistant editor, but soon became editor, a position he held until 1862, at which time he became a critic for La perseveranza, a position he held for the rest of his life.

Filippi also wrote an autobiography as well as some works of music scholarship, including studies of Alessandro Stradella and Adolfo Fumagalli.

In 1876 he published a collection of all the articles he had written for La perseveranza, under the title Musica e musicisti: critiche, biografie ed escursioni.