Massimo Bogianckino (10 November 1922 – 8 December 2009) was an Italian pianist, artistic director, and politician.
[1] Born in Rome of Romanian origin on his father's side, descendant on his mother's side from the family of Gabriele D'Annunzio, Bogianckino studied humanities and in the meantime studied the piano with Alfredo Casella and Alfred Cortot,[2] graduating from the Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia.
He began his career as a concert performer and composer, but later preferred the path of teaching.
In 1968 he directed the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and was later invited by the French Minister of Culture Jack Lang to hold the post of general director of the Paris Opera between 1983 and 1985.
A member of the Italian Socialist Party, Bogianckino was elected Mayor of Florence on September 24, 1985, to lead a council dominated by the PCI, the PSI, the PSDI and the PLI.