Lucio Agostini

Lucio Agostini (born December 30, 1913 in Fano ; † February 15, 1995 in Toronto ) was a Canadian composer, arranger and conductor of Italian origin.

Agostini came to Montreal with his family at the age of three and received Canadian citizenship in 1926. He received his first music lessons at the age of five from his father, the composer and conductor Giuseppe Agostini . He later studied harmony and composition with Louis Michiels and Henri Miro and cello with Peter Van der Meerschen . At the age of fifteen he played tenor saxophone, bass clarinet and cello in his father's orchestra, and at the age of sixteen he became a cellist in the Montreal Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Eugène Chartier .

In 1929 and 1930, Agostini directed the Red and White Revue at McGill University . From 1932 to 1944 he composed numerous pieces of music for documentaries for the Associated Screen News , of which he was most recently musical director. For the National Film Board he composed music for short film series such as Canada at War and The World in Action . For radio, he conducted the programs Mantilles et castagnettes , The Little Review and Carnival in Venice .

1944-45 he composed and conducted the music for the CBC radio play series Stage by Andrew Allen , later he also worked for the CBC Ford Theater and various other radio programs, including his own Strictly for Strings (1951-52), Appointment with Agostini ( 1954–55 and 1958–60), Music Album (1968), Collage '(1969) and Music to Remember (1970). After a one-year stay in Hollywood, he was the conductor and arranger of the television program Front Page Challenge of the CBC for twenty years from the mid-1950s .

In the 1970s, Agostini created three musical comedies Willie the Squowse (1968), Gibraltar (1975) and Divorce (1976), and during this time he also composed music for several television films, including Inside Out (1975), Ragtime Summer (1977), The Little Brown Burro (1978) and The New Misadventures of Ichabod Crane (1978). In 1980 the music for the radio play version of Robertson Davies ' novel Fifth Business was created . Agostini also composed a piano concerto (1948), the tone poem Pickwick Papers (1948), an elegy for orchestra (1958), the Shakespearean String Suite for string orchestra (1948), a flute concerto (1960, recorded by Nicholas Fiore with the Albert Pratz Orchestra ) and a Trio Québécois (1970, recorded with Avrahm Galper 1971) and arranged works for the singers Alys Robi , Juliette Augustina Cavazzi and Tony Ziccardi and the guitarist Giovanni Liberatore .

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SURNAME	Agostini, Lucio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian composer, arranger and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH	Fano (brands)
DATE OF DEATH	February 15, 1995
Place of death	Toronto