Alceo Galliera

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(b Milan, 3 May 1910). Italian conductor and composer. After study at the Milan Conservatory he made his début in Rome in 1941. Though he has conducted opera in Milan and Genoa his career as an orchestral conductor has been largely outside Italy. In 1964 he became artistic director of the Strasbourg Municipal Orchestra. He has recorded with London orchestras, notably the LSO, his repertory reflecting a cosmopolitan taste.

Alceo Galliera

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Alceo Galliera (3 May 1910 - 21 April 1996) was a distinguished Italian conductor and composer. He was the son of Arnaldo Galliera (1871—1934) who taught in organ class at the Parma Conservatory.

Galliera was born in Milan in 1910 and studied piano, organ, and composition at the Milan Conservatory.

Among the orchestras he conducted were those of La Scala and the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. He conducted operas in which Maria Callas sang, as well as concerts with such great pianists as Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli and Dinu Lipatti. He also appeared at the Lucerne Festival where he conducted the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Salzburg Festival with the Vienna Philharmonic. In 1950-51 he was the conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra (then known as the Victorian Symphony Orchestra).^[1]

His compositions include 'Scherzo-Tarantella' and 'The Wise Virgins and the Foolish Virgins'.

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Alberto Zelman (1906) • Fritz Hart (1927) • Bernard Heinze (1932) • Alceo Galliera (1950) • Juan José Castro (1952) • Walter Susskind (1953) • Kurt Wöss (1956) • Georges Tzipine (1960) • Willem van Otterloo (1967) • Fritz Rieger (1971) • Hiroyuki Iwaki (1974) • Markus Stenz (1998) • Oleg Caetani (2005) • Tadaaki Otaka (2009)

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Name	Galliera, Alceo
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Date of birth	3 May 1910
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Date of death	21 April 1996
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