Ettore Mazzoleni

Ettore Mazzoleni ( born June 18, 1905 in Brusio, † June 1, 1968 in Oak Ridges ) was a Canadian conductor and music educator of Swiss origin.

Mazzoleni initially studied mathematics and later composition at Oxford University and piano at the Royal College of Music. In 1929, he went to Toronto and taught at the Upper Canadian College until 1945 Music and English. Already in his arrival year he participated in the preparation of a performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams' opera Hugh the Drover at the Toronto Conservatory of Music (TCM). From 1932 he taught music history and conducting m TCM, 1934, he was the successor of Donald Heins Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra of the TCM. From 1942 to 1948 he was also guest conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 1949 he received Canadian citizenship.

From 1952 to 1966 Mazzoleni was director of the Royal Cons Opera School at the University of Toronto. As director of the Opera Festival of Toronto, he has conducted Die Fledermaus (1957 and 1964) and The Tales of Hoffmann (1958 ) by Jacques Offenbach, The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini (1959) and A Night in Venice by Johann Strauss. He conducted the premieres of Healey Willan's opera Transit through Fire and Deirdre and Canadian premieres of works by Howard Hanson, Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams ' and George Butterworth '. As a guest conductor he has appeared, among others with the CBC Symphony Orchestra, the Halifax Symphony Orchestra, the Hart House Orchestra, the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, the Pro Arte Orchestra, the Quebec Symphony Orchestra, the Toronto Philharmonic Orchestra, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Victoria Symphony Orchestra. In the CBC, he led a series of concerts with the harpsichordist Greta Kraus and Arnold Walter and conducted as part of the series CBC Wednesday Night, the North American premiere of Arthur Benjamin's A Tale of Two Cities.

Among the students Mazzolenis on TCM included, inter alia, Louis Applebaum, Howard Cable, Victor Field Brill, Robert Fleming, George Hurst, Franz Kraemer and Godfrey Ridout. In his first marriage he was the pianist Winifred Mazzoleni, a sister of Ernest MacMillan, married, in second marriage with singer Joanne Ivey. Mazzoleni came in 1968 in a traffic accident.

Source

  • The Canadian Encyclopedia - Ettore Mazzoleni
  • Man
  • Canadian
  • Born 1905
  • Died in 1968
  • Conductor
  • Music teacher
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