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The Bologna Connection
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is mostly closely associated with his native city of Florence – where he studied and lived until his emigration to the United States in 1939 – and the Tuscan countryside that so profoundly inspired him. However, the composer also has a little known connection with Bologna and its conservatory; Bologna is where Castelnuovo-Tedesco took the exams for his diploma in composition in 1918. Maestro Piero Bonaguri and Professor Annarosa Vannoni of the Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini of Bologna recently uncovered Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s exams and related documents in the conservatory’s archives, and they kindly shared their findings with the Castelnuovo-Tedesco Archives.
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