Antonio "Toni" Ortelli (November 25, 1904 in

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– March 3, 2000 in Schio) was an Italian alpinist, conductor and

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from the

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. Ortelli is well known in the southern

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regions of Italy,

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and

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for being the composer of the famous

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folk song " La Montanara" (The Song of the Mountains). Ortelli, according to his own account, conceived the melody and lyrics in 1927 while being on an excursion in the mountains of the Pian della Mussa in the Val d'Ala (

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) and listening to the song of a shepherd. Luigi Pigarelli, under the pseudonym Pierluigi Galli, has added other vocal parts to harmonize it as a choral piece for men's choir. It has been translated into 148 languages.

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* *A 2006 recording of "La Montanara" performed by the Croz Corona Choir can be found o
ItalyHeritage.com
at https://www.italyheritage.com/italian-songs/traditional/la-montanara.htm (accessed on September 23, 2018). {{DEFAULTSORT:Ortelli, Toni Italian male composers 1904 births 2000 deaths Italian male conductors (music) Italian mountain climbers 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian male musicians People from Schio