Bernardino Molinari

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Bernardino Molinari (11 April 1880 – 25 December 1952) was an Italian conductor.

Molinari conducted the Augusteo Orchestra, Rome, which has since been named l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. His conducting abilities were widely criticized, and he was the victim of a private attack by Arturo Toscanini in one of his letters:

Our poor Bernardino [Molinari], who boasts of having two big, hard b[alls], is really the victim of the disproportionate weight of his accessories, because the blood, exiting from his brain and infiltrating down below, leaves his intelligence very anemic.^[1]

[edit] Notable premieres

Concert

• Ottorino Respighi: Pini di Roma, Augusteo, Rome, 4 December 1924

Recording

• Antonio Vivaldi: Four Seasons, 1942

[edit] References

Carlo Giorgio Garofalo (1886-1962). The Morrison Foundation for Musical Research (12 May 2006). Retrieved on 2007-09-07.

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