Silvio Tanzi (1879 – 29 November 1909) was an Italian composer and music critic.
He was born in Sassello and died in Milan.
[1] He was the brother of writer Drusilla Tanzi who was married to Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale.
[2] Eugenio Montale remembered his wife's brother in the poem Your brother died young, thirteenth text of the first book of Xenia : the ruffled girl who looks at me 'posing' in the oval of a portrait.
He wrote unpublished music, unheard of, now buried in a trunk or go to the màcero.