Stefano Tempia ( Italian: Stefano Tempia ; December 5, 1832 , Racconigi - November 25, 1878 , Turin ) - Italian composer, violinist and music teacher.
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He studied violin with his father, a musician in a military orchestra, then studied music under the guidance of Luigi Felice Rossi . In 1853-1859 the musical director of the collegiate church in Trino , then settled in Turin, initially as a violinist and accompanist, and then as a conductor at the Teatro Carignano. In the early 1860s. got the place of conductor of the court chapel of the Sardinian kingdom . In 1864, he delivered his most significant work, the Solemn Mass in Memory of King Carl Albert . He also wrote a number of other choral works of spiritual content, several operettas, of which the most popular was Love and Whim ( Italian: Amore e Capriccio ; 1869).
In 1868, with the establishment of the Turin Musical Lyceum, he became the first professor of violin. Then he left from there in 1875 to establish his own Choral Academy Stefano Tempia, which operates to date. It was also published as a music critic.