Vittorio Negri (October 16, 1923 - April 9, 1998) was an Italian conductor,

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, and musicologist. Negri was born in

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. He initially studied at the Milan Conservatory, then at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where he became assistant conductor under

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in 1952. He initially worked on critical editions for

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, but took a position with

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in the late 1950s as a record producer. He became a prolific producer for Philips's classical music department and recorded copiously for them as conductor of the Berlin Chamber Orchestra and the Dresden Staatskapelle. He devoted much of his recording energies to

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, while continuing to work on musicological projects; he surfaced a lost work of Cimarosa's, the ''Requiem in G Minor'', and subsequently performed and recorded it. In the 1980s he led a chamber orchestra in

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, having primarily given up producing. He was the founder of the Italian Society of Musicology.

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, "Vittorio Negri". ''

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''. 2nd edition. Negri was nominated for two

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in 1969, one in 1972, and one in 1980.

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Interview with Vittorio Negri
August 27, 1992 {{DEFAULTSORT:Negri, Vittorio Italian record producers 1923 births 1998 deaths 20th-century Italian musicologists 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian conductors (music) 20th-century Italian male musicians Italian male conductors (music) Italian expatriates in Austria