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Guido Cantelli
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Italy
- Active from
- 1920
- Active to
- 1956
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Guido Cantelli (27 April 1920 – 24 November 1956) was an Italian orchestral conductor. He was named Musical Director of La Scala, Milan in November 1956 but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in an airplane crash in Paris, France. Biography Born in Novara, Italy, in 1920, Cantelli studied at the Milan Conservatory and began a promising conducting career, which was interrupted by World War II, during which he was forced to serve in the Italian ar
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- human
- Given name
- Guido
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Novara
- Place of death
- Orly
- Occupation
- conductor
- Educated at
- Milan Conservatory
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Student of
- Antonino Votto
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- Guido Cantelli, 1950 - collezione Tino Barindelli (detail).tif
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- date of birth
- 1920-04-27
- date of death
- 1956-11-24
- manner of death
- accidental death
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Guido Cantelli, c. 1953
Guido Cantelli ( Italian: [ˈɡwi.do kanˈtɛl.li]; 27 April 1920 – 24 November 1956) was an Italian orchestral conductor. Toscanini elected him his "spiritual heir" after witnessing him conduct at La Scala, Milan in May 1948. He was named music director of La Scala in November 1956, but his promising career was cut short only one week later by his death at the age of 36 in the 1956 Paris DC-6 crash in France en route to the United States.
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