Composer
Biography
Largely self-taught at the piano, Cesare Andrea Bixio was composing in his teens and came up through the variety theatres of Naples. Parlami d'amore Mariù, Vivere, Mamma, La mia canzone al vento and Il tango delle capinere are his, many of them made with the lyricist Bixio Cherubini and carried by Beniamino Gigli, Carlo Buti, Tito Schipa, Giuseppe Di Stefano and, later, Pavarotti. From the first years of sound film he wrote songs and scores for the cinema. Born in Naples in 1896, he set up his own firm, Edizioni C. A. Bixio, in 1920, and wrote the music for the film La canzone dell'amore in 1930. Cinevox Record followed in 1960.