- Sergio Fiorentino
Sergio Fiorentino was a 20th-century Italian classical
pianist whose sporadic performing career spanned five decades. Fiorentino was born inNaples onDecember 22 ,1927 and died thereAugust 22 ,1998 .Music career
Fiorentino studied at the Conservatorio
San Pietro a Majella in Naples underLuigi Finizio andPaolo Denza , earned his diploma in 1946 and attended a master class ofCarlo Zecchi inSalzburg in 1948.He debuted at New York's
Carnegie Recital Hall in 1953. The next year, however, while on tour in Argentina and Uruguay, he suffered a near-fatal plane accident, forcing him to cut back on concertizing. This led to him becoming a teacher at the Naples conservatory where he had once been a student.In the late 1950s he made a new start in concertizing, both in his native country and in England. Most of his recordings were made during those years (1958-1965). But again, he withdrew from the concert stage, limiting his rare public appearances to his native country, and again started to regularly teach master classes.
After leaving the Naples conservatory in 1993, he again began to play more in public outside his native Italy and performed in
Germany ,France ,Taiwan , and theUSA . Negotiated and contracted engagements inRussia andCanada could not be fulfilled due to his sudden death in his home in Naples on August 22nd, 1998.Fraud with Concert Artists label
Beginning in 1994 through after his death in 1998, a large number of recordings by Fiorentino were released. Recordings made in Berlin from 1994 to 1997 were released on APR whereas earlier unissued material was put out by the
Concert Artists label. In February 2007, Concert Artists admitted to falsely attributing music recorded by the lateJoyce Hatto .cite web | work=BBC | date = 2007-02-27 | accessdate=2007-03-08 | title=Classical CDs 'faked' by producer | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6400307.stm] Subsequently, a CD of mazurkas by Fiorentinoproduced byConcert Artists (CACD9002-2) has been found tocontain plagiarised tracks from three other performers.cite web | work=CHARM | accessdate=2007-12-10 | title=Joyce Hatto and others: who was playing the piano? | url=http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/content/contact/hatto_cover.html]Some of Fiorentino's recordings made during the late fifties and early sixties were issued after the original label's (Saga) failure under pseudonyms by the new owner (Marcel Rodd). The most frequently used pseudonym was "
Paul Procopolis ". [ [http://www.geocities.com/elumpe1/SFDiscography.html Sergio Fiorentino Discography] . accessdate=2007-04-23 ]References
External links
* [http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Fiorentino-Sergio.htm Short biography] on the Bach-Cantatas.com website
* [http://www.concertartistrecordings.com/FeaturedArtists/sergiofiorentino.htm Biography] on site of Concert Artist/Fidelio Recordings
* [http://freenet-homepage.de/elumpe/index.htm Discography, Reviews, Pictures] at The Sergio Fiorentino Pages"This article about a classical musician is a . You can help Wikipedia by plainlink|url=fullurl:FULLPAGENAME|action=edit expanding it".
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