Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri - 25 December 1954 in Ivrea)[1] was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer.
By the age of six, Scalero was under the tutelage of Pietro Bertazzi, a violinist, musical instrument maker and instructor at the Conservatorio St. Celcilia in Torino[1]. In 1881, Scalero entered the Liceo Musicale di Torino under Luigi Avalle. At the age of 15, Scalero came under the tutelage of César Thomson. Scalero appears to have returned to his home at Moncalieri for a time for health reasons, before returning to Torino (Turin) to study with Camillo Sivori through 1889, appearing during this time with the Sivorni Quartet.
In 1891, Scaleri made his debut as a recitalist in Leipzig, following which he performed in Milan, Rome, London, and throughout Europe to critical acclaim. In 1895, Scaleri went to London to study and assist violinist August Wilhelmj (concert master of the world premiere of Wagner's Ring of the Nibelungs in Bayreuth). In 1900 he left London for Vienna, where he became a composition student of Eusebius Mandyczewski.
1907 returned Scalero to Rome. Here he joined in 1913 the Società del Quartetto and became its musical director and first violinist. In 1919, he was succeeded by Ernest Bloch as a composition teacher at the Mannes School of Music in New York. After 1927, he taught at the famous Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, while apparently keeping a residence in Gressoney [2]. In 1946 he returned to Montestrutto in Ivrea, Italy, where he died in 1954.
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Works
- A Suite for String Quartet and String Orchestra
- La Divina Foresta, symphonic poem for large orchestra
Pupils of Rosario Scalero
- Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
- Gian Carlo Menotti (1911-2007)
- Nino Rota (1911-1979)
- Milton Adolphus (1913-1988)
- Luigi Zaninelli (1932- )
- Lukas Foss [3]
- Roland Leich (1911-1995)
- Leonard Gregory Kastle
- Muriel Hodge
- David Barnett
- Carl Bricken
External links
- German Wikipedia entry on Scalero (German)
- Music Is My Faith - An Autobiography. David Mannes, ISBN 1406739359
References
- ^ a b The Strad. October 1895.
- ^ Kenneson, Claude. Musical prodigies. ISBN 1574670468. http://books.google.com/books?id=KCIZXeVciRwC&pg=PA290&dq=&ei=SJA7SrMGleTMBPKQuLoF.
- ^ [1] Grace Notes: Lukas Foss
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