Quinto Maganini
Quinto Maganini (born November 30, 1897 in Fairfield , California , † March 10, 1974 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American composer, flautist and conductor.
Maganini studied flute with Georges Barrère at the Institute of Musical Art , the forerunner of the Juilliard School of Music . He was a flautist in the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra from 1917 to 1919 and in the New York Symphony Orchestra until 1927 . In 1927 he received a Pulitzer Travel Scholarship for his opera The Argonauts , which enabled him to study with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. In 1932 he founded a chamber orchestra in New York.
From 1939 to 1970 he was the conductor of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra . With this he played numerous world premieres of works by contemporary composers, including his own. Soloists such as Yo-Yo Ma , Itzhak Perlman and Emanuel Ax began their careers with this orchestra.
Maganini composed, among other things, two operas and a ballet, a symphony, a rhapsody and other orchestral works, a string concerto, choral works and songs.
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| SURNAME | Maganini, Quinto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American composer, flautist and conductor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 30, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fairfield , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 10, 1974 |
| Place of death | Greenwich , Connecticut |