Roberto Michelucci
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Roberto Michelucci obtained his diploma in violin
in the courses with Gioacchino Maglioni (1891–1966) at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Firenze
. In 1950 he obtained the first absolute place at the Rassegna Concertisti di Roma.
His discographic recordings have been admired by the critics: Franco Abbiati
(Milan), Massimo Mila (Turin), B. Gavoty (Paris), E. Moser (Lausanne), E. Muller-More (Geneva), J. Hawranek (Salzburg), J. Boehm (Jerusalem), C. Wilson (Edinburgh), only to cite some of them, and among the many prizes he won at his label (Philips
) some of the most important were:
In addition to being a member, for several years, of Musici di Roma, he joined, among other musicians: pianists Bruno Canino
, Maureen Jones and Tullio Macoggi and conductors Hermann Scherchen
, Laszlo Somogji, Bernhard Paumgartner, Lovro von Matacic
, Rudolf Kempe
, Artur Rodzinsky, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
, and Ernest Ansermet
.
He was the first Italian violinist invited to the Salzburg Festival
, where he and the Camerata Academica del Mozarteum performed Mozart
's concerts K. 219 and K. 211 in August 1967 and 1968.
His vast repertory included baroque through contemporary composers, and many authors composed works especially for him, for example the Concerto lirico per violino e orchestra by Valentino Bucchi
.
He presented, for the first time in Israel
, Luigi Dallapiccola
's Tartiniane per violino ed orchestra
(with the Sinfonica di Haifa); in Geneva
he played Ferruccio Busoni
's violin concert with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
and played in Florence
, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
, concerts op. 19 by Sergei Prokofiev
, re minor by Robert Schumann
, re minor by Felix Mendelssohn
.
His last contribution was the recording (Foné) of Johann Sebastian Bach
's Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
He was also a member of important international musical contests, as well as a teacher in specialization courses in different places in Europe, and professor in the Conservatorio “Francesco Morlacchi” in Perugia
and, from 1960 to 1985, at the Conservatorio “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence
, where he had a huge number of students.
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
in the courses with Gioacchino Maglioni (1891–1966) at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Firenze
Firenze
Firenze is the Italian name for the city of Florence.Firenze may also refer to:* Andrea da Firenze, an Italian composer* Lorenzo da Firenze, an Italian composer and music teacher of the trecento...
. In 1950 he obtained the first absolute place at the Rassegna Concertisti di Roma.
His discographic recordings have been admired by the critics: Franco Abbiati
Franco Abbiati
Franco Abbiati was an Italian musicologist.Abbiati was born in Verdello. He studied composition at the musical high school in Turin. He worked as a music critic for Corriere della Sera for thirty-six years....
(Milan), Massimo Mila (Turin), B. Gavoty (Paris), E. Moser (Lausanne), E. Muller-More (Geneva), J. Hawranek (Salzburg), J. Boehm (Jerusalem), C. Wilson (Edinburgh), only to cite some of them, and among the many prizes he won at his label (Philips
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
) some of the most important were:
- He won three times, between 1967 and 1969, the Grand Prix du DisqueGrand Prix du DisqueThe Grand Prix du Disque is the premier French award for musical recordings. The award was inaugurated by l'Académie Charles Cros in 1948 and offers prizes in various categories. The categories vary from year to year, and multiple awards are often made in any one category in the same year...
di Parigi. - Premio della critica Francese (Paris).
- 1972: Gold record in Tokyo, for selling more than one million copies of VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
's Four SeasonsThe Four Seasons (Vivaldi)The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. Composed in 1723, The Four Seasons is Vivaldi's best-known work, and is among the most popular pieces of Baroque music. The texture of each concerto is varied, each resembling its respective season...
. He was the first case of a gold record obtained by a classical musician.
In addition to being a member, for several years, of Musici di Roma, he joined, among other musicians: pianists Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino
Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...
, Maureen Jones and Tullio Macoggi and conductors Hermann Scherchen
Hermann Scherchen
Hermann Scherchen was a German conductor.-Life:Scherchen was originally a violist and played among the violas of the Bluthner Orchestra of Berlin while still in his teens...
, Laszlo Somogji, Bernhard Paumgartner, Lovro von Matacic
Lovro von Matacic
Lovro von Matačić was a Croatian conductor and composer.-Biography:Lovro von Matačić was born in Sušak to a family that was granted a noble title in the early 17th century. Growing up, he was always surrounded by music and art: his father had a career as an opera singer, and his mother as an actress...
, Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe
Rudolf Kempe was a German conductor.- Biography :Kempe was born in Dresden, where from the age of fourteen he studied at the Dresden State Opera School. He played oboe in the opera orchestra of Dortmund and then in the Leipzig Gewandhaus orchestra, from 1929...
, Artur Rodzinsky, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Gianandrea Gavazzeni was an Italian pianist, conductor , composer and musicologist.Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, in 1966-68 being its music and artistic director.He had his Metropolitan Opera debut on 11...
, and Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet
Ernest Alexandre Ansermet was a Swiss conductor.- Biography :Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians. Originally he was a...
.
He was the first Italian violinist invited to the Salzburg Festival
Salzburg Festival
The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart...
, where he and the Camerata Academica del Mozarteum performed Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
's concerts K. 219 and K. 211 in August 1967 and 1968.
His vast repertory included baroque through contemporary composers, and many authors composed works especially for him, for example the Concerto lirico per violino e orchestra by Valentino Bucchi
Valentino Bucchi
Valentino Bucchi was an Italian composer.-Biography:Bucchi was the son of musicians...
.
He presented, for the first time in Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, Luigi Dallapiccola
Luigi Dallapiccola
Luigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....
's Tartiniane per violino ed orchestra
Giuseppe Tartini
Giuseppe Tartini was an Italian baroque composer and violinist.-Biography:Tartini was born in Piran, a town on the peninsula of Istria, in the Republic of Venice to Gianantonio – native of Florence – and Caterina Zangrando, a descendant of one of the oldest aristocratic Piranian families.It...
(with the Sinfonica di Haifa); in Geneva
Geneva
Geneva In the national languages of Switzerland the city is known as Genf , Ginevra and Genevra is the second-most-populous city in Switzerland and is the most populous city of Romandie, the French-speaking part of Switzerland...
he played Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni
Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...
's violin concert with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande is a Swiss symphony orchestra, based in Geneva at the Victoria Hall...
and played in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino is an annual opera festival which was founded in April 1933 by conductor Vittorio Gui with the aim of presenting contemporary and forgotten operas in visually dramatic productions. It was the first music festival in Italy. The first opera presented was Verdi's early...
, concerts op. 19 by Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
, re minor by Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....
, re minor by Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...
.
His last contribution was the recording (Foné) of Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...
's Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin.
He was also a member of important international musical contests, as well as a teacher in specialization courses in different places in Europe, and professor in the Conservatorio “Francesco Morlacchi” in Perugia
Perugia
Perugia is the capital city of the region of Umbria in central Italy, near the River Tiber, and the capital of the province of Perugia. The city is located about north of Rome. It covers a high hilltop and part of the valleys around the area....
and, from 1960 to 1985, at the Conservatorio “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence
Florence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
, where he had a huge number of students.