Person

Weiss, Piero

1928–2011

Piero Weiss; b. Piero Ernesto Weiss, Jan. 26, 1928, Trieste; fled Fascist Italy with his family in 1938 and arrived in New York in 1940; d. Sunday [Oct. 2, 2011], Baltimore, aged 83; former concert pianist and recording artist who turned to musicology, becoming an author and co-author of books in the field, including a widely used textbook, and founding the music history department at the Peabody Conservatory