SIEMENS Experim Rec 1942 Luigi AMODIO Mozart Clarinet Concerto K 622 Galliera

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Great early recording by Italian Clarinetist LUIGI AMODIO

MOZART:
CONCERTO FOR CLARINET A-MAJOR (KV 622)

LUIGI AMODIO, CLARINET

ALCEO GALLIERA
CONDUCTS
Municipal Orch BERLIN (= Deutsches Opernhaus, Charlottenburg)

Notice on top of the label reads: Siemens Spezial

Experimental Disc Record by the silver process of the Electro-Acoustical Research Laboratory

Condition: Better than Excellent, pristine, 1mm scratch on 2, plays exceptionally quiet, faint warp NAP

Album great

Luigi Amodio (1902-1942)) Son of haberdasher Eduardo Amodio, Luigi was born in Bologna on August 7, 1902. This diminutive young man achieved his diploma of the age of 17. Bionco Francesco Bianchini had taught Amodio at the Bologna Conservatory. The following five years were taken up with freelancing all over Italy and Switzerland. Toscanini noticed Amodio and hired him to play principal clarinet in his orchestra at La Scala. He needed extra income in the summer. His favorite pastime was swimming, so he usually chose to work near a lake or sea, like Verona, Rimini and Viareggio in short opera and ballet seasons. It is interesting to note that La Scala Opera House, being one of the most famous and prestigious companies in the world, offered no security or pension scheme to any of their musicians at that time. Amodio’s reputation as a fine artist was expanding and opening up many new avenues. Opportunities arose to participate in a number of chamber concerts and recordings throughout Italy, Germany and Austria. In the summer of 1938, he was offered the post of Principal clarinet of the RAI Orchestra in Rome, which he accepted on a temporary contract. Eventually the opportunity to perform the major concertos arose, one of the most notable occasions being a Weber Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. He collaborated with many world-famous musicians, such as the Poltronieri and Strub Quartets, with whom he performed and recorded most of the mainstream compositions for clarinet and string quartet. Amodio performed with Walter Getting and Edwin Fischer, and also Sergei Prokofiev in his piece ''Overture on Hebrew Themes'' in 1938 in Milan. As the gathering clouds of war engulfed Europe, Amodio sought the sanctuary of a professorship of in conservatory in Bolzano, but his application was rejected due to his non-possession of a Fascism Party card. Soon after, though, a civic school in Milan offered him a similar post - one that he obviously enjoyed and excelled at. His most notable pupils were Gianni Schianni (who become principal clarinet in the Milan Radio Orchestra and a great friend of the family), Giacomo Gandini, and he introduced the Italian style of playing to clarinetists of that time.

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