Pierluigi Cimma or Pier Luigi Cimma (August 19, 1941 – July 31, 2006), was an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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, lutenist, guitarist and teacher.

Cimma was born in Turin

Turin

Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...

. He was the longtime chairman of the guitar department at the Conservatorio G.Verdi in Turin, and the founder of the Bardonecchia

Bardonecchia

Bardonecchia is an Italian town and comune located in the Province of Turin, in the Piedmont region, in the western part of Susa Valley....

 Guitar Festival. His works had been published by Edizioni Berben.

He was a student of Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia

Andrés Torres Segovia, 1st Marquis of Salobreña , known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Jaén, Andalucia, Spain...

. His own students included Gabriella Perugini, Roman Turovsky, Massimo Moscardo, Salvatore Gullace, Fabio Rizza and Massimo Riva