Claudio Scimone

Italian conductor (1934-2018)

Claudio Scimone (23 December 1934 – 6 September 2018) was an Italian conductor. He was born in Padua, Italy. Scimone was the founder of I Solisti Veneti (the ensemble with which most of his recordings have been made) and at the time of his death was the honorary conductor of the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, Portugal.[1] He also gave the modern premieres of Moses in Egypt and Oedipus at Colonus by Rossini, and The Last Judgement by Salieri.

Claudio Scimone

Scimone died on 6 September 2018 in Rome at the age of 83.[2]

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  1. "The Gulbenkian Orchestra's page includes Claudio Scimone as honorary conductor, musica.gulbenkian.pt/orquestra". Archived from the original on 2009-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  2. Morto maestro Claudio Scimone (in Italian)