Azio Corghi was made a Grand Officer in a senior order of knighthood founded in what year?
Azio Corghi Azio Corghi (born 9 March 1937 in Cirié, Piedmont) is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli. In 2005 he was made a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary The Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen (Hungarian: "Magyar Királyi Szent István Iovagrend" ; German: "Königlich Ungarische Sankt-Stephans-Orden" ) was an order of knighthood founded by Holy Roman Empress Maria Theresa in 1764. It was recreated in 2011 as the Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen, and to this day remains the highest order in Hungary.