Guido Cantelli

Guido Cantelli (* April 27, 1920 in Novara, † November 24, 1956 in Paris ) was an Italian conductor.

His life came to a tragic end when he arrived at the age of 36 years with a failed start of an Italian machine at the Paris Orly Airport killed.

In his short career, he not only had many of the major orchestras in Europe, but also in South Africa and America conducted, including the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Arturo Toscanini was responsible for much Cantellis success by mediated Cantelli commitment and wanted to make him his successor. So he wrote in 1950 to Cantellis wife Iris, after he had passed four concerts of the NBC Symphony Orchestra as a guest conductor:

Toscanini, who died in New York on 16 January 1957 never learned of the death Cantellis.

Swell

• Harvey Sachs: Toscanini, Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1978, ISBN 0-397-01320-5

• Conductor
• Italian
• Born in 1920
• Died in 1956
• Man