Sad news: Italian maestro dies at 83
mainThe gentle Claudio Scimone, founder of I Solisti Veneti and a brilliant reviver of lost Italian works, died today in his birthplace, Padua.
Among other notable achievements, Scimone gave the first modern performance of Rossini’s Mosè in Egitto and made a premier recording of the Clementi symphonies with the Philarmonia Orchestra in London.
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