Rosario Scalero

Natale Rosario Scalero (24 December 1870 in Moncalieri – 25 December 1954 in Montestrutto) was an Italian violinist, music teacher and composer.

Life and career By the age of six, Scalero was under the tutelage of Pietro Bertazzi, a violinist, musical instrument maker and instructor at the Conservatorio St. Cecilia in Rome. Among his most successful students at Curtis were composers Samuel Barber, Jeanne Behrend, Nino Rota, Gian Carlo Menotti and George Walker. During that time he also taught Marc Blitzstein, Berenice Robinson and Mary Watson Weaver. In 1946 he returned to Montestrutto, near Ivrea, where he died in 1954.

Works A Suite for String Quartet and String Orchestra La Divina Foresta, symphonic poem for large orchestra Violin Sonata (Op.12, D minor, published 1910)

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