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Riccardo Brengola was born on 18 March, 1917 in Naples, Italy, is an Italian violinist and music teacher. Discover Riccardo Brengola's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?

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Occupation Violinist · composer · professor
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 18 March, 1917
Birthday 18 March
Birthplace Naples, Italy
Date of death 16 May, 2004
Died Place Rome, Italy
Nationality Italy

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His wife is Guliana Bordoni (m. 18 August 1941)

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Parents Carlo Brengola (father)Maria Esposito (mother)
Wife Guliana Bordoni (m. 18 August 1941)
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Children 3

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1917

Riccardo Brengola (18 March 1917 – 16 May 2004) was an Italian violinist and professor.

He was associated with early Italian chamber music and with the performance of contemporary Italian classical music.

Riccardo Brengola was born in Naples on 18 March 1917, the son of Carlo Brengola and Maria Esposito.

1919

His father was a cellist, who had a passion for making stringed instruments, but the extremely harsh economic conditions in the immediate post-war period caused the family to emigrate to Casablanca, Morocco in 1919.

Carlo Brengola opened a music shop which sold instruments, sheet music and albums.

When Riccardo turned three, his father decided to make him a violinist, making him his first instrument and teaching him.

Child Riccardo Brengola performed Arabian music in public.

At the age of six he was enrolled in the Casablanca Music Conservatory, where he was taught by Lucien Salin, a graduate of the Lucien Capet school.

Riccardo also attended a Spanish primary school where he learned his fourth language: at this point he spoke Spanish, French, Arabic, and the Neapolitan dialect.

He did not speak Italian.

1929

At eleven, he graduated from the Conservatory, and in 1929, Mussolini offered him a bursary in Italy, which allowed him to move to Rome where he joined the classes of.

A few years later, he graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and from the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.

Brengola took part in competitions and won prizes and titles, amongst them the Taormina, and also the Accademia Chigiana Prize for improvement.

1937

In 1937, he was the only Italian among the winners of the Eugene Ysaye First International Congress in Brussels (the Queen Elisabeth Competition).

1938

In 1938, he met the pianist Giuliana Bordoni in Siena, a student in Alfredo Casella's class at the Accademia Chigiana.

At the time she was 18, and he was 21.

1939

For several decades, he was the Professor Emeritus of chamber music at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, and from 1939 to 1966, he was the leader of the only piano quintet ensemble, the Quintetto Chigiano.

His influence as a teacher also spread beyond Siena, through courses or classes at other major Italian Conservatories and to Ireland, Argentina, Spain and Japan.

In 1939, Count Chigi-Saracini decided to create a new chamber music group called Quintetto Chigiano, which was formed by choosing the best students of the Accademia.

The people chosen were: Riccardo Brengola (first violin); Ferruccio Scaglia (second violin) (later Mario Benvenuti and Angelo Stefanato); Giovanni Leone (viola); Lino Filippini (cello); and Sergio Lorenzi (piano).

While in this group, Brengola did not discontinue his solo performances and his activity as conductor alongside his engagement with chamber music.

His work as a conductor, in particular, arose after he had studied in Paul van Kempen's classes at the Chigiana.

1941

They married in the summer of 1941 at the headquarters of the Accademia Chigiana, in the Palazzo Chigi Saracini chapel.

Their marriage lasted almost 60 years, and three children were born.

They formed a musical duo, and gave concerts through Italy and in Spain, France, Germany and Russia, and got accolades because of this.

They recorded the complete Mozart Violin Sonatas for Radiotelevisione Italiana.

In 1941, he was appointed head teacher at the Music Conservatory of Pesaro.

He then taught, in turn, at the conservatories in Venice, Bologna, Naples and Rome.

1946

In 1946, he won the Geneva International Music Competition.

In 1946, Count Chigi-Saracini granted Brengola directorship of the Chamber Music courses at the Accademia Chigiana, a position which he held until 1997.

In 1946, Count Chigi made him course director of the ensemble music course at the Accademia Chigiana.

1950

In the 1950s and 1960s, the Brengolas had a trio with the cellist Benedetto Mazzacurati.

1956

By 1956, the Quintet had recently given more than a thousand concerts in countries including Italy, Germany, England, France, Holland, Belgium and Spain, had taken part in major European festivals, and had newly completed a highly successful tour of Central and South America: their repertoire reflected Brengola's preoccupations both with early Italian chamber music and with the works of contemporary composers.

1963

Alberto Ginastera dedicated his Piano Quintet op. 29 (1963) to the Chigiano, who gave the first performance at the Teatro La Fenice in that year.

1966

In 1966, the year after Guido Chigi's death, the Quintetto was dissolved and was re-formed as the Sestetto Chigiano d'Archi : in addition to Brengola, its membership included Felice Cusano (later Giovanni Guglielmo) (second violin); Mario Benvenuti and Tito Riccardi (violas); and Alain Meunier and Adriano Vendramelli (cellos).

1982

He maintained his career as a concert violin soloist and as an orchestral conductor, and was awarded the status of Commendatore of the Italian Republic in 1982.

1997

He taught there until 1997.

Brengola taught chamber music for many years, facilitating training courses at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he was an academic and a member of the Board of Directors.

He taught courses and seminars in other music institutes, including those in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Dublin, and Tokyo.

Teaching was one of his largest passions (among his students were Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Sayaka Shoji, Uto Ughi and the Tokyo Quintet), to which he remained greatly committed.