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Italian conductor
| Piero Bellugi
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| Born
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1924-07-14
)
14 July 1924
Florence
,
Italy
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| Died
| 10 June 2012
(2012-06-10)
(aged 87)
Florence, Italy
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| Occupation(s)
| Orchestral conductor
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| Years active
| 1951?2012
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Musical artist
Piero Bellugi
(14 July 1924 ? 10 June 2012) was an Italian
orchestral conductor
.
[1]
Life
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Bellugi was born in
Florence
, in Tuscany, on 14 July 1924. He took a diploma in violin at the
Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini
in that city, studying under
Gioacchino Maglioni
[
it
]
.
[2]
He studied
conducting
under
Paul van Kempen
at the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
in
Siena
and under
Igor Markevitch
at the summer academy of the
Universitat Mozarteum Salzburg
in Austria.
[2]
In 1951, with the help of a study grant, he travelled to the United States, where he studied under
William Steinberg
and
Rafael Kubelik
, and at the
Berkshire Music Center
at
Tanglewood
under
Leonard Bernstein
.
[2]
On 10 August 1951 he conducted a performance of
Ma mere l'oye
by
Maurice Ravel
there.
[3]
From 1954 to 1956 he was conductor of the
Tri-City Symphony Orchestra
in
Davenport, Iowa
.
[
citation needed
]
Between 1956 and 1961 he was resident conductor of the
Oakland Symphony Orchestra
and of the
Portland Symphony Orchestra
.
[4]
From 1960 he received invitations to conduct in Europe, and conducted the orchestra of the
Rundfunk der DDR
in
Berlin
, and the orchestra of
La Scala
in Milan, where his first performance was in the
Serse
of
George Frideric Handel
in 1962.
[2]
He conducted the first performances of
Darius Milhaud
's
Symphony No. 10
in 1961 and of the
Settimo Concerto
of
Goffredo Petrassi
in 1965.
[5]
From 1969 to 1974 he was the resident conductor of the
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
, at that time one of four orchestras of the
RAI
, the national broadcaster.
[4]
In 2004 he was appointed artistic director of the
Teatro Massimo
, the opera house of
Palermo
.
[6]
As a guest he conducted the
Aix-en-Provence Festival
, the
Vienna State Opera
, the
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
in Rome, the
Lyric Opera of Chicago
and the
San Francisco Opera
.
[5]
Piero Bellugi taught master-classes at several institutions including the
Accademia Musicale Chigiana
in Siena, the
University of California, Berkeley
, and the
New England Conservatory of Music
in Boston. From 1996 he gave classes at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence.
[
citation needed
]
He was also a permanent conductor of the
Orchestra Giovanile Italiana
and the Toscanini Orchestra of Parma.
[
citation needed
]
He died in Florence on 10 June 2012.
[1]
Family
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]
In 1954 he married
Ursula Herzberger
.
[5]
Their son
David Bellugi
was a
recorder
virtuoso.
[1]
He had five children in all.
[5]
References
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Further reading
[
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]
- Music World.
The New York Times
, 15 July 1962, page 71.
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