Silvio Tanzi

Silvio Tanzi (1879 – 29 November 1909) was an Italian composer and music critic. He was born in Sassello and died in Milan.

He was the brother of writer Drusilla Tanzi who was married to Nobel laureate Eugenio Montale.

In the poetry by Eugenio Montale
Eugenio Montale remembered his wife's brother in the poem Your brother died young, thirteenth text of the first book of Xenia :