Carlo Zecchi

Summary

Carlo Zecchi (8 July 1903 – 31 August 1984) was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.

Carlo Zecchi at a rehearsal in Kharkiv in 1974 (photograph by Yuri Shcherbinin)

Zecchi was born in Rome. A pupil of F. Baiardi for piano and of L. Refice and A. Bustini for composition, he began his career as a concert pianist at only seventeen years of age.[1] He later studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni and Artur Schnabel in Berlin.[2] In 1938, he stopped playing the piano to study conducting with Hans Münch and Antonio Guarnieri.[3] He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. He was a highly acclaimed performer of the works of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy and of other Romantic music. He died in Salzburg.

References edit

  1. ^ "Carlo Zecchi on Treccani, the Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts". Treccani (in Italian).
  2. ^ Slonimsky, Nicolas (1978). "Zecchi, Carlo". Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians (6th ed.). New York: Schirmer Books. p. 1939. ISBN 0-02-870240-9.
  3. ^ "Carlo Zecchi on Treccani, the Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts". Treccani (in Italian).
  • "Zecchi Carlo". Internetowa encyklopedia PWN (in Polish). Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2008-02-17.

External links edit

  • Evans, Allan (1996). "Carlo ZECCHI". Arbiter Records Home Page. Archived from the original on 2008-02-28.
  • "Carlo Zecchi Biography". Naxos. Archived from the original on 2020-06-18. Retrieved 2008-02-17.