Roberto Michelucci

Roberto Michelucci ( born October 29, 1922 in Livorno, † 13 November, 2010 Reggello ) was an Italian violinist.

Life

Michelucci studied at the Conservatory of Florence and in Rome won the first prize of Rassegna Concertisti. He has played, among others with the pianist Bruno Canino, Maureen Jones and Tullio Macoggi and with the conductor Hermann Scherchen, Bernhard Paumgartner, Lovro von Matačić, Rudolf Kempe, Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Ernest Ansermet. From 1967 to 1972 he was concertmaster of the chamber orchestra I Musici, with whom he recorded several records. He devoted much of his time teaching duties; he was a professor at the Conservatory of Florence and jury member at several international music competitions.

Repertoire

Micheluccis repertoire ranged from the Baroque to the present. Documented on recordings are, inter alia, Violin Concertos, Op 10 by Tomaso Albinoni, four violin concertos from Op 11 by Francesco Antonio Bonporti, the violin concertos L' Estro Armonico and The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi, the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, and the violin concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach, four violin sonatas by Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Concertos op 3 Pietro Locatelli, the Violin Concerto No. 5 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concerto in D minor by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and the Romanian folk Dances by Béla Bartók. Several contemporary works were devoted Michelucci, including the Concerto Lirico for Violin and String Orchestra by Valentino Bucchi (1957).

• Classical violinist
• Music teacher
• Italian
• Born in 1922
• Died in 2010
• Man