Henri Martelli

Henri Martelli (25 February 1895 – 15 July 1980) was a 20th-century French composer.

Born in Santa Fe, Argentina and raised in Bastia,[1] Martelli was student of Charles-Marie Widor and Georges Caussade at the Conservatoire de Paris.

In 1919, he graduated in law from Université de Paris.

He was director of chamber music programmes on radio from 1940 to 1944, secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique and president of the French section of the ISCM in 1953.

He wrote – in a neoclassical style – many chamber music works as well as lyrical and radio works.