Gaetano Cesari ( Italian: Gaetano Cesari ; June 24, 1870 [2] , Cremona - October 21, 1934 , Sale Marazino ) - Italian musicologist .
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He studied at the Milan Conservatory as a cellist and composer , since 1891 played the cello in the orchestra of the La Scala theater, then since 1894 in the orchestra of the Hamburg Opera (under the direction of Gustav Mahler ). Later he studied musicology at the University of Munich under the direction of Adolf Zandberger , defending in 1908 a dissertation on the origin of madrigal ( German Die Entstehung des Madrigals im 16. Jahrhundert ).
In 1909 he returned to Italy. In 1917 - 1924 He was a professor of music history at the Milan Conservatory. Then he worked as the curator of the museum at La Scala, led the department of musical criticism in the newspaper Corriere della Sera , and managed the series Monuments of Italian Musical Art at the Milanese music publishing house Ricordi , which opened thanks to a subscription campaign in which Arturo Toscanini actively participated [ 3] . He published monographs “Italian concerti grossi ” (Bologna, 1920), “ Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli” (Milan, 1931), “ Amilcar Ponchielli in the art of his time” ( Italian A. Ponchielli nell'arte del suo tempo ; Cremona, 1934) , as well as a course of lectures on the history of music (1931); prepared (together with Alessandro Lucio) the publication of letters to Giuseppe Verdi ( 1913 ). Posthumously published the book "Music in Cremona" (1939).
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- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ Some sources mistakenly 1879.
- ↑ The Letters of Arturo Toscanini - University of Chicago Press, 2006 .-- P. 98.