Ruggero Gerlin

Ruggero Gerlin (born January 5, 1899 in Venice , † June 17, 1983 in Paris ) was an Italian harpsichordist and music teacher .

Gerlin studied at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, where he received a diploma as a pianist. From 1920 he studied harpsichord with Wanda Landowska , with whom he worked until 1940 and performed together. From 1941 he was professor for harpsichord at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella di Napoli . From 1947 he gave master classes at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana . Huguette Dreyfus , Anne-Marie Beckensteiner , Kenneth Gilbert and Blandine Verlet were among his students .

As a soloist and chamber musician, Gerlin performed all over Europe. He made the first complete recordings of the works for solo harpsichord by François Couperin , Louis Couperin and Jean-Philippe Rameau and edited works by Giovanni Battista Grazioli , Alessandro Scarlatti and Benedetto Marcello for the I Classici Musicali Italiani series .

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SURNAME	Gerlin, Ruggero
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian harpsichordist and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH	January 5, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH	Venice
DATE OF DEATH	June 17, 1983
Place of death	Paris