Rosario Scalero

Rosario Scalero ( born December 24, 1870 in Moncalieri, † December 25, 1954 in Ivrea ) was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer.

Studied at the Liceo Musicale Scalero di Torino with Luigi Avalle. He then lived in Turin, Genoa and Rome, and went in 1895 to London to study at the violinist August Wilhelmj, the concertmaster of the premiere of Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen in Bayreuth. In 1900 he left London and was in Vienna studied composition with Eusebius Mandyczewski.

1907 Scalero returned back to Rome. Here he founded Società del Quartetto 1913, musical director and first violinist he was. In 1919 he was appointed as the successor of Ernest Bloch as a teacher of composition at the Mannes School of Music in New York. Since 1927 he has taught at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1946 he returned to Italy and settled at Castle Montestrutto in Ivrea, where he died in 1954.

Works

  • A suite for string quartet and string orchestra
  • La Divina Foresta, symphonic poem for large orchestra

Student of Rosario Scalero

  • Composer of classical music ( 20th century)
  • Italian composer
  • Classical violinist
  • Music teacher
  • Italian
  • Born 1870
  • Died in 1954
  • Man
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