Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco · Arts & Literature
Classical and film composer
1895, Florence, Italy — 1968, Beverly Hills, California, United States
Italy · United States
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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian-born composer from a Sephardic Jewish family in Florence. A prolific writer of concert and guitar music (including works for Andrés Segovia), he fled Fascist Italy after the 1938 racial laws and emigrated to the United States, where he became a leading Hollywood film composer and an influential teacher of figures such as Henry Mancini and John Williams.
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Classical and film composer
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Music
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