Simplify the following text for a Grade 6 native English-speaking person.
Original: After graduating in 1956 , he studied on an Italian government scholarship for a year with Goffredo Petrassi in Rome before working as Director of Music at Cirencester Grammar School from 1959 to 1962 .
Simplified: After a short stay in Rome he got a job as Director of Music at Cirencester Grammar School from 1959 to 1962 .