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Born in Ferrara, Chailly studied literature at Bologna University. He grew up under fascism, but he himself remained essentially apolitical. He belonged to the era of postwar cinema, the age of Fellini, Antonioni and De Sica. Chailly was familiar with television and film: he produced for, and later headed, the music department of Radio Televisione Italiana (RAI) from 1951 to 1968. His music for Giacomo Vaccari's Il Mastro Don Gesualdo, after the novel by Giovanni Verga, brought him to a wider audience and he was the moving force behind the setting up of RAI's radiophonic archive in Milan.
He was the father of Riccardo (composer) and Cecilia (a harpist) |