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Guido Cantelli
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Guido Cantelli (27 April 1920 – 24 November 1956) was an Italian orchestral conductor. He was named Musical Director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956 but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in an airplane crash in Paris, France. Biography Born in Novara, Italy, in 1920, Cantelli studied at the Milan Conservatory and began a promising conducting career, which was interrupted by World War II, during which he was forced to serve in the Italian army, then placed in a German labor camp because of his outspoken opposition to the Nazis. He became ill and managed to escape the camp. He resumed his musical career after the Allies liberated Italy. Arturo Toscanini saw Cantelli conduct at La Scala, Milan and was so impressed that he invited him to guest conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in 1949. In a note written to Cantelli's wife Iris in 1950 after four of these concerts, Toscanini said: "I am happy and moved to inform you of Guido's great success and that I introduced him to my orchestra, which loves him as I do. This is the first time in my long career that I have met a young man so gifted. He will go far, very far." In the course of his brief career, he had conducted not only in many of the most famous concert halls of Europe but also in the United States and South Africa. Besides conducting the NBC Symphony from 1949 to 1954, Cantelli also guest conducted the New York Philharmonic and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the U.S
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Nocturnes, CD 98, L. 91: No. 1, Nuages
4012Debussy: Nocturnes, CD 98, L. 91: No. 1, Nuages
553Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, "Christmas Concerto": I. Vivace - Grave. II. Allegro. III. Adagio - Allegro - Adagio. IV. Vivace. V. Allegro
464Rienzi : Overture
445Andante (arr. G. Marinuzzi for orchestra)
336Vespro della Beata Vergine, "composti sopra canti fermi": Magnificat: Magnificat
327The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter): I. Allegro non molto
318Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, "Christmas Concerto": VI. Pastorale ad libitum: Largo
309The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter): III. Allegro
2810The 4 Seasons: Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV 297, "L'inverno" (Winter): II. Largo
27albums
Debussy: Nocturnes - Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Suite No. 2
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The Art of Guido Cantelli, Vol. 1 (1949-1955)
Icon: Guido Cantelli
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Richard Wagner : Overtures
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Milestones of a Legend: Guido Cantelli, Vol. 1
Mozart: Requiem in D-Moll, K. 626
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Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte - Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune - Dukas: L'apprenti sorcier
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Schubert: Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4, Op. 90 "Italian"
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Schumann: Symphony No. 4, Op. 120
Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll - Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
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Guido Cantelli
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Wagner, R.: Overture To Rienzi / A Faust Overture / Good Friday Music / Siegfried's Rhine Journey / Siegfried Idyll (Cantelli) (1951-1956)