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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | His Violin Concerto no. 2 (1931), written at the request of Jascha Heifetz, was also an expression of his pride in his Jewish origins, or as he described it, the "splendor of past days," in the face of rising anti-Semitism that was sweeping across much of Europe. |
 | | The meeting inspired Castelnuovo to write his Concerto in D for Guitar, the first of almost one hundred compositions for that instrument, which earned him the reputation as one of the foremost composers for the guitar in the twentieth century. |
 | | He wrote to Arturo Toscanini, the former musical director of La Scala, who has left Italy in 1933, explaining his plight, and Toscanini responded by promising to sponsor him as an immigrant in the United States. |
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