- Salvatore Accardo
Salvatore Accardo (born
September 26 ,1941 inTurin , northernItaly ) is an Italianviolin virtuoso and conductor.He is highly regarded for his interpretations of Paganini, J. S. Bach, contemporary works,
chamber music , andopera conducting.Accardo studied violin in the southern Italian city of
Naples in the 1950s. He gave his first professional recital at the age of 13 performing Paganini's "Capricci". In 1956 Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 became the first prize winner of thePaganini Competition inGenoa .He has recorded Paganini's "24 Caprices" (re-recorded in 1999) for solo violin and was the first to record all six of the Paganini Violin Concertos. He has an extensive discography of almost 50 recordings on Philips, DG, EMI, Sony Classical, Foné, Dynamic, and Warner-Fonit.
Accardo founded the
Accardo Quartet in 1992 and he was one of the founders of theWalter Stauffer Academy in 1986. He founded the Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples and the Cremona String Festival in 1971, and in 1996, he re-founded the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (O.C.I.), whose members are the best pupils of the Walter Stauffer Academy.Accardo owns two
Stradivarius violins, the "Hart ex Francescatti" (1727) and the "Firebird ex Saint-Exupéry" (1718).External links
* [http://www.festivalmozartrovereto.com/deu/artisti04/accardo.htm Additional biographical information]
* [http://www.sonybmgmasterworks.com/artists/salvatoreaccardo/ Discography at SonyBMG Masterworks]
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