Guido Cantelli

Guido Cantelli (April 271920 – November 241956) was a promising Italian orchestral conductor whose career was tragically cut short by his death at the age of 36 in an airplane crash in Paris, France. In the course of his brief career, he had conducted not only in many of the most famous houses of Europe but also in the United States and South Africa as well.

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Arturo Toscanini was particularly impressed by him, and he wrote in a note to Cantelli's wife Iris in 1950, after four concerts of Cantelli as guest conductor with the NBC Symphony Orchestra:

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I am happy and moved to inform you of Guido's great success and that I introduced him to my orchestra, which loves him as I do. This is the first time in my long career that I have met a young man so gifted. He will go far, very far. 1

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Toscanini, who died less than two months later, was never told of Cantelli's death.

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Cantelli left a small but valuable legacy of recordings.

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1920: 1920 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)...

November 24: November 24 is the 328th day (329th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar....

1956: 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar....

Guido Cantelli related Images and Photos (experimental)

Kiss Me Guido

Dante Presenting Giotto to Guido Da Polenta