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Vittorio Negri (October 16, 1923 - April 9, 1998) was an Italian conductor,
record producer A record producer is a recording project's creative and technical leader, commanding studio time and coaching artists, and in popular genres typically creates the song's very sound and structure. Virgil Moorefield"Introduction" ''The Producer as ...
, and
musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...
. Negri was born in
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. He initially studied at the
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, then at the
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, where he became assistant conductor under Bernhard Paumgartner in 1952. He initially worked on critical editions for I Musici, 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 The Staatskapelle Dresden (known formally as the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden) is a German orchestra based in Dresden, the capital of Saxony. Founded in 1548 by Maurice, Elector of Saxony, it is one of the world's oldest and most highly re ...
. He devoted much of his recording energies to
Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widesprea ...
, 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. Lionel Salter, "Vittorio Negri". ''
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''. 2nd edition.
Negri was nominated for two Grammy Awards 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