Guido Agosti

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Guido Agosti (born August 11, 1901 in Forlì ; † June 2, 1989 in Milan ) was an Italian pianist .

Life

He studied piano at the Liceo musicale in Bologna from 1911 to 1914 , his teachers were Bruno Mugellini , Ferruccio Busoni and Filippo Ivaldi . He also learned to compose privately with Giacomo Benvenuti . After Agosti had completed his philology studies in Bologna, he gave very successful concerts at home and abroad. After his great career as a soloist , he taught at the conservatories in Venice , Rome and Milan from 1933 to 1949 .

After the end of the Second World War , Agosti became the leader of a master class for piano at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. From 1949 he taught piano masterclasses at the Accademia musicale Chigiana in Siena .

In 1967 he began to give concerts again, but not as a soloist . He founded a trio with Severino Gazzelloni (flutist) and Enrico Mainardi (cellist). He also became a piano partner of the Quartetto di Roma and a juror at international piano competitions.

His students included Maria Tipo , Yonty Solomon , Leslie Howard , Martin Jones , Donna Amato , Vladimir Krpan , Hamish Milne , Dag Achatz , Sergio Calligaris , Raymond Lewenthal , Kun-Woo Paik , Daniel Pollack , William Corbett Jones , Angela Brownridge , Ian Munro , Geneviève Calame , Rita Wolfensberger , Jürgen Schröder and Eric van Griensven .

literature

  • Alain Pâris : Classical music in the 20th century, instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . Agosti, Guido. 2nd Edition. dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 7 .
  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Agosti Guido. 12th completely revised edition. 1. Personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1959, p. 11 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (editor): Riemann Musik-Lexikon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Agosti, Guido. 12th completely revised edition. 4. Supplementary volume, personal section A – KB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 8 (first edition: 1882).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Riemann Musiklexikon, 1959.
personal data
SURNAME Agosti, Guido
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Forlì
DATE OF DEATH June 2, 1989
Place of death Milan