Claudio Scimone

Claudio Scimone ( born December 23, 1934 in Padua ) is an Italian conductor.

Life

Scimone worked 1952-57 as a music critic for the Gazzetta del Veneto while studying conducting with Carlo Zecchi, Dimitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara. In 1959 he founded the chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti, which he has since then. He taught chamber music at the conservatories of Venice ( 1961-67 ) and Verona ( 1967-74 ); 1974-83 he was director of the Conservatory of Padua.

Through archival research and scientific researches Scimone expanded its musical repertoire to include numerous works of the 18th and 19th centuries. So he took first on the complete symphonies of Muzio Clementi and made the works of Tartini's generally known. He reconstructed Vivaldi's opera Orlando furioso and brought them in 1979 in Verona and in 1981 in Aix -en- Provence to the performance. A reconstruction of Albinoni's Il nascimento de l' aurora was published in 1984 in Venice. Were also works of the 20th century and can still be found on his program.

Besides his work as a conductor of I Solisti Veneti conducted Scimone 1979-86 the orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, where he re- aufführte 1981 Rossini Opera Mosè in Egitto. In the same year he made his debut with a performance of Donizetti's L' elisir d' amore at Covent Garden. As a guest conductor he worked, inter alia, with the London Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestre Philharmonique de l' ORTF and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra together.

Recordings

Scimone has more than 150 records and CDs recorded, many of which are first recordings (including Mercadante, Boito, Donizetti, Spontini, Ponchielli ). His Vivaldi discography amounts to more than 250 works.

Awards

1969 Scimone was awarded the Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge Memorial Medal. For his recordings, he received several times the Grand Prix du Disque, also a Grammy Award, the Prix Mondial du Disque ( Montreux ) and the Diapason d'Or.

Writings

  • Segno, significato, interpretazione. Padua in 1970.
Giuseppe Tartini Antonio Vivaldi Aix-en-Provence Gaetano Donizetti Arrigo Boito Gaspare Spontini Amilcare Ponchielli Integrated Authority File
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