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Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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[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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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 had so skillfully stitched music to text that every word rang with its original clarity.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Castelnuovo-Tedesco changed the sense of Shakespeare in only one respect: he omitted Shylock's conversion to Christianity on the theory that no man of the Jew's temperament would abandon his faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

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