Giuseppe Selmi ( Italian: Giuseppe Selmi ; April 12, 1912 , Modena - February 8, 1987 , Rome ) - Italian cellist and composer.
| Giuseppe Selmi ital. Giuseppe selmi | |
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| Date of Birth | April 12, 1912 |
| Place of Birth | Modena |
| Date of death | February 8, 1987 ( 74) |
| Place of death | Rome |
| A country | Italy |
| Professions | cellist , composer |
| Instruments | cello |
| Collectives | Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Rome |
He studied in Modena with Ercole Brittany (1875-1945), then with Enrico Maynardi and Pablo Casals .
During the Second World War he was drafted into the army, fought on the Eastern Front, was captured by Soviet troops. In the fall of 1943 , he wrote his most famous work in a prisoner of war camp in the Ternopil region - A Spiritual Concert ( Italian Concerto Spirituale ) for cello and orchestra in D major; in 1952 , this concert received the first prize in the composer nomination of the International Viotti Competition . Selmi also owns a number of other works of the cello repertoire - in particular, Three Elegiac Songs for Cello and Piano ( In Memory of Not Returning ).
For many years, Selmi was the first cello of the Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Rome and played under the direction of the largest conductors of the mid-20th century - in particular, Bruno Walter , Herbert von Karajan , Dimitris Mitropoulos , Leonard Bernstein , Lorin Maazel . Among the few solo recordings of Selmi is an album of cello music by contemporary Italian composers, including, in particular, the sonata Alfredo Casella ; in addition, Selmi recorded the adagio Franco Mannino for the soundtrack of the film Lukino Visconti “ Innocent ” and took part in the ensemble that accompanied Fabrizio De Andre on the album “Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo” ( 1971 ).
Among the students of Selmi, in particular, Frans Helmerson .