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Castelnuovo-Tedesco

American  
[kah-stel-nwaw-vaw-te-de-skaw] / ˌkɑ stɛlˈnwɔ vɔ tɛˈdɛ skɔ /

noun

  1. Mario 1895–1968, U.S. composer, born in Italy.


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As part of this initiative, Millstein has programmed a series of performances featuring the music of Erwin Schulhoff, Franz Schreker, Alexander von Zemlinsky, Mieczysław Weinberg, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Herbert Zipper.

From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2022

There, he studied with the composer and conductor Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, the violinist and composer Joseph Achron and the composer Ernst Toch.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2019

He plays Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a true-life, largely unsung studio film composer — and Jewish-Italian émigré — who also taught such future luminaries as John Williams, Henry Mancini and Jerry Goldsmith.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2019

His Carnegie Hall program includes Busoni’s daunting arrangement of Bach’s Chaconne; works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Schumann and Chopin; and Alexis Weissenberg’s arrangements of songs sung by the French pop artist Charles Trénet.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2018

Composer Castelnuovo-Tedesco, 66, one of the most prolific and successful of Italy's traditionalist composers, wrote his Merchant in competition for the "Campari Prize," awarded by the opera-loving manufacturers of that bitter Italian aperitif.

From Time Magazine Archive

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