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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
(b Florentine, 1895; d Beverly Hills, 1968). Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco , born into a Florentine Jewish family in 1895, attended the Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, where he studied piano with Edgardo del Valle and composition with Ildebrando Pizzetti. In 1939, because of the unstable political situation in Italy, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and his family emigrated to the United States with the assistance of both Heifetz and Toscanini. He eventually settled in Beverly Hills, where he died in 1968. Castelnuovo-Tedesco was a prolific composer, although much of his music remained unpublished during his lifetime. He wrote for nearly every performing medium, including opera, ballet and film; he also composed orchestral, choral, chamber, vocal and piano works. A long association with guitarist Andrés Segovia inspired Castelnuovo-Tedesco to write a significant number of works for guitar. |
