ANIELLO The life, works 
Aniello Cuffs was born in Mutignano (TE) January 9, 1905. From a young age he expressed his strong love for music by learning the basics by Father Eustace Farina in the Seraphic College of Tagliacozzo. Hampered by the father's wishes, is addressed first to classical studies, but once achieved the license gymnasium, preferred to follow what was for him the only way congenial and devoted himself to the study of music theory, harmony and piano with M ° Antonio Di Jorio. At the Conservatory of Naples San Pietro a Maiella " had the good fortune to have as a teacher the distinguished musician Camillo De Nardis. He kept many letters and works of "Stella", in memory of the beautiful years together and the friendship that bound them.
came in Vasto in 1930 where, without interruption, he held the chair as professor of pr role the teaching of music and singing in the Institute Magistrale Statale "Romualdo Pantin and State School" Raffaele Paolucci; was also Director and animator School Musical Combatants and Veterans of Vasto with an adjacent band. As director of the Chamber Choir, organized concerts in the auditorium of ITC "Filippo Palizzi" before he became organist at the historic church of St. Peter the Apostle, which was destroyed by the landslide of 1956. At that time A. Wrists, also constitutes, with Gino Martella, Espedito Ferrara and Philander Lattanzio a sort of Last Supper paintings that dealt with culture, music and literature. Those were the years for the master of
"Core me '" and the first compositions that made it known to the distinguished composers such as Di Abruzzo Jorio, and Dommarco Jannucci.
Wrists author was multifaceted, with a strong temperament and its production in the range of music and poetry was very varied, ranging from sacred music - with the settlement of two masses of glory and a requiem - for the profane, from the chamber - with parts for violin and piano and orchestra - in the theater. Together with the comm. Borselli was the soul of the song festival in Vasto, Abruzzo and Molise, was a judge of "September Abruzzese in Pescara and directed four traditional" Maggiolata "Ortona always getting unconditional approval.
He wrote comedies, romances, hymns, but his statement was derived from the popular folk song. This probably reflects the fact that the catchy ditty with special rates spreads and raises the immediate responsiveness of the people, despite Wrists search for a song more challenging texts and poets about times of classical rigor as those De Titta, Tilli, Di Jorio, Dommarco, Del, Saracens, Del Casale, etc. Among its many celebrated repertoire of popular songs that reflected his poetic refinement include:
"Nostalgie Vaste," "The Scaffette," "The Song of grandmothers and perhaps the one that the Master had a special bond and that he same as "my masterpiece!"
'I was' na vote ".
Great commitment Wrists dedicated it to the theater to which he addressed the most charming and inspiring the best energies, helping to enrich the priceless cultural heritage and singing of the people of Abruzzo.
The Master was not second to none for professionalism and competence, and certainly stood out for decency and modesty intelligently managing the fame and popularity. The merits and distinctions and not exalted above did not affect his natural bonhomie that is tied to those who were fortunate enough to approach him, to know and appreciate.
Speaking of cuffs you can not separate the man from the artist. His compositions, his works were often seen the musical interpreter of himself and had a corner where they gathered to reflect and reconsider its infancy, often generous with so many joys, who had denied the affection of his mother lost when venutagli ' was still a boy.
In the texts and music of the wrists, found his vocation, the contents of true art and suffered because he dedicated his entire life. The wrist was the author of many poems in Abruzzese dialect, partly published in volumes
"Arlette paisan" and
"Vaje dicenne dendrites of me" . Sonoraccolte of poems which should consecrate the wrists as well as musician, poet dialect of Abruzzi.
world cuffs, however, was the musical one, where his gifts as a poet is often combined with the harmony, the words he used were more for their sound for their sense of transforming images, thoughts and myths in plots music. The phrasing he used is simple, clean, light and delicate, always tinged with a melancholy and good-natured sensibility likely to express sadness or moments of sparkling vitality, emphasizing the peaceful hours of a life spent in all singleness of heart. It is based on personal experience, in fact, wrists trying to find ways of traditional folk song on the track and that's how
"The song of grandmothers , made with the traditional pattern of childish hand, proves an autobiographical myth childhood care and revised through pictures ancient melodies of a lost civilization, but very close to him. Which artist
pure, pulse, could not even ignore the charm of his land, the vision of an idyllic Abruzzo, cheerful, with the colors, its valleys, its mountains and the sea which can often find in his songs, reflecting a conception sometimes with songs of joy or folds read melancholy without ever falling into a dark torment. Even the love relationship he describes is almost always without drama, as an encounter unpaid, in an idealized image of a secular tradition.
The music that we said and the one that faces the main expression of the wrist, went from sweet melodies to describe romantic moments of life together as
"Vocca to Vocca" , a festive and lively rhythms and when to be stricken village scenes portrayed are real
Catarine to 'to talk about "moving or checkered
" At the fairs ".
applicant by the wrist and no doubt the nostalgia, love and the distance from its land, which is embodied in a social context certainly well known author. The emigration overseas was common, especially in Vasto in Abruzzo and his noble and sensitive soul could not but be touched by this scourge. So he does nothing that portray, in his poems, a harsh reality in the shoes of the emigrant in descending discovers precisely the nostalgia for the natural beauty of their land, as in
"Nustalgie Vaste" or recall from the places of origin so that it
"the Scaffette" , the simple basket of fish became a symbol of their country. There is always in the texts of the wrists, though, that bit of optimism, brightness and musicality in his own character and in fact, always in "The Scaffette," the emigrant as if by magic he achieved his dream and return to its wide even just to buy some much-needed basket of fish with this, cuffs can recall stories, images and situations with great transport, but without ever falling into the sentimental rhetoric. The inspiration
Master, passion and dedication for music left him in no case, even if temporarily faded in the dark moments that accompanied his journey as the sudden death of his first wife, died away and the young daughter of Sandra mystical crisis, which disturbed the serenity of his life. But the Master was also great in these moments of pain and was able to draw the energy needed to move forward and continue its upward path towards the laurels of popularity, continuing with his art to inspire sublime moments of quivering emotion.
On April 10, 1983 Aniello Wrists died in Bazzano (BO), where he had gone to stand beside his wife Carla Professor Pinelli and his daughter Sandra, the only solace to his joyous and troubled romantic life of an artist and successful.
Professor. Adelio Tilli, who died recently, speaking of him in Certame XII Regional dialect poetry of Celenza Trigno the year 1983, which was part of the jury wrists for several years, recalling his reserved character and closed said
"He who is present here in spirit, forgive us all that we wanted to disturb the sacred silence of death even if the noble intention to remind ourselves as well as other ". He added:
"To us, unworthy followers of that pitiful insanity remains the Horatian 'non omnis moriar' if has not lived in vain. "
not easy to talk to Tito, to remember: it is not, basically, for two reasons. The first part of the refusal of those who, like me, he was close and loved him for so many years, thinking that it can no longer share his passion, hard times and happy moments, testing of the choir, public executions, lunches, dinners, etc.. The other reason part from the nature of Titus, because he was a shy man, who did not like to talk about himself and talking about it, it seems to infringe in any way to his nature. The curriculum vitae of Titus was certainly full: diploma in organ and harpsichord, but also expert in the humanities, coming from classical studies, Professor Professor of Organ complementary and Gregorian chant at the Conservatory in Perugia, and prior to power, before it ... Choir teacher of the founder and director of the Schola Gregoriana Righele Piergiorgio ", the chorus in Santo Stefano Rivo Maris, a collaborator of the Vocal Consort
