Vittorio Rieti (28 January 1898 – 19 February 1994) was an Italian and American composer.
Rieti was born to a family of Jewish descent in Alexandria, Kingdom of Egypt.
Subsequently, he studied music in Rome with Ottorino Respighi and Alfredo Casella, and lived there until 1940.
[1] In 1925, he temporarily moved to Paris and composed music for George Balanchine's ballet for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, Barabau.
[citation needed] He emigrated to the United States in 1940, becoming a naturalized American citizen on 1 June 1944.