Gianandrea Gavazzeni’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Italian musician
Was Musician 
Conductor 
Composer 
Musicologist 
Pianist 
From Italy 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 27 July 1909, Bergamo, Italy
Death 5 February 1996, Bergamo, Italy
(aged 86 years)
Star sign Leo
Family
Spouse: Denia Mazzola 
Education
Milan Conservatory
Awards
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic  
Genre:
Opera
Instruments:
Piano

Gianandrea Gavazzeni (25 July 1909 – 5 February 1996) was an Italian pianist, conductor (especially of opera), composer and musicologist.

Gavazzeni was born in Bergamo. For almost 50 years, starting from 1948, he was principal conductor at La Scala, Milan, in 1966–68 being its music and artistic director.

He had his Metropolitan Opera debut on 11 October 1976. He conducted eight performances of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore that year at the Met.

His compositions include: concertos such as ‘Concerto bergamasco’; ‘The Song of St Alexander’; and sonatas.

His last wife was the soprano Denia Mazzola-Gavazzeni. In January 1993, at age 83, he conducted Jules Massenet’s Esclarmonde at Teatro Massimo di Palermo, with his wife singing the title role. It was the first time he had conducted this opera.

Gianandrea Gavazzeni died on 5 February 1996.

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