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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

1895 - 1968

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (3 April 1895 – 16 March 1968) was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco is the 546th most popular composer (up from 564th in 2019), the 2,008th most popular biography from Italy (up from 2,089th in 2019) and the 97th most popular Italian Composer.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ranks 546 out of 1,451. Before him are R. D. Burman, Johann Adam Hiller, Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, Hans Swarowsky, Philippe Herreweghe, and John Adams. After him are Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger, Arno Babajanian, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Leo Brouwer, Karel Svoboda, and Johann Strauss III.

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Among people born in 1895, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ranks 100. Before him are Michel Simon, Louis Raymond, Max Koegel, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Hanns Albin Rauter, and Prescott Bush. After him are Paul Neményi, Hans Loritz, Malik Ghulam Muhammad, Josef Bürckel, Lewis Mumford, and Heinrich Eberbach. Among people deceased in 1968, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ranks 73. Before him are Jo Schlesser, Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Soraya Tarzi, Fedor Tokarev, Jean Paulhan, and Paul Radmilovic. After him are Cassandre, Tivadar Soros, Fyodor Okhlopkov, Santos Iriarte, Thomas Merton, and Tullio Serafin.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ranks 2,008 out of 5,161. Before him are Iva Zanicchi (1940), Angelo De Donatis (1954), Filippo Taglioni (1777), Ferrante Gonzaga (1507), Antonio Rosmini (1797), and Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (1781). After him are Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580), Giovanni Baglione (1566), Giovanni Battista Donati (1826), Alberto Tomba (1966), Gaius Nymphidius Sabinus (100), and Luca Toni (1977).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco ranks 97. Before him are Riz Ortolani (1926), Ferdinando Paer (1771), Emilio de' Cavalieri (1550), Maddalena Casulana (1544), Francesco Maria Veracini (1690), and Remo Giazotto (1910). After him are Giovanni Girolamo Kapsperger (1580), Giacinto Scelsi (1905), Luigi Rossi (1597), Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663), Tommaso Traetta (1727), and Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini (1720).

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