Giuseppe Martucci

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Giuseppe Martucci (January 6, 1856, near Capua, Campania – June 1, 1909, Naples) was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. He learned the basics of music from his father who played the trumpet. He was a child prodigy, performing on the piano at the age of 10. He was a student at the Naples conservatory, where he subsequently held a professorship and became director in 1902. Among his students was Ottorino Respighi.

As a conductor he helped introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy, conducting the first Italian performance of Tristan und Isolde. He also conducted perhaps the only concert of all-British orchestral music on the European continent in the whole period 1851–1900, and included music by Brahms, Lalo, Goldmark and others in his programs.

He wrote no operas, making him rare among Italian composers of his generation, but instead concentrated on instrumental music and songs, producing also an oratorio, Samuel.

His music is influenced primarily but not entirely by that of Brahms and Schumann, and was championed by Arturo Toscanini during much of the latter's career. G.F. Malipiero said of Martucci's second symphony that it was "the beginning of the rebirth of non-operatic Italian music."

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sonatas for organ, violin, piano and violoncello
Song-cycles including La Canzone dei Ricordi (with piano or orchestra; perhaps his major work)
Many chamber works, most with piano (piano quintet, two piano trios, for example).
Miniatures for piano solo or with other instruments, some of which have an independent concert life in orchestral arrangements.