Vincenzo Scaramuzza

Vincenzo ( Vicente) Scaramuzza ( born June 19, 1885 † 1968) was an Italian- Argentine pianist and music teacher.

Life and artistic work

Scaramuzza was born in Crotone / Italy. He received his first piano lessons by his father Francesco. At the age of seven, he was the first concerts and studied only a little later at the prestigious San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. In 1907 he emigrated to Argentina and continued in his studies at the " Santa Cecilia " Academy of Music in Buenos Aires. He married Sara Bagnati, a fellow student, and co-founded with her 1912 Scaramuzza Academy of Music. During his career as a pianist he has performed not only in Argentina, but also in North and South America and Europe.

Education

From 1923 Scaramuzza abandoned his concert career and devoted himself to teaching. A large number of renowned Argentine and international pianist comes from his school, including Martha Argerich, Michele Boegner, Bruno Leonardo Gelber, Carmen Piazzini, Daniel Levy, Francisco Amicarelli, Mauricio Kagel, Fausto Zadra, Alberto Portugheis or Enrique Barenboim, the father of Daniel Barenboim. The well-known tango pianist Horacio Salgán and Atilio Stampone were among his pupils.

Although Scaramuzza was drawn in his last years of severe illness, he continued to teach by letting get his wings in his bedroom. He died in Buenos Aires.

The basis of records, which he had made during his life, reconstructed Maria Rosa Oubiña de Castro, a student Scaramuzzas, his teaching method. In book form it was published under the title Enseñanzas de un gran maestro 1977.