Carlo Zecchi

{{Short description|Italian conductor and pianist (1903–1984)}}

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Carlo Zecchi (8 July 1903{{spaced ndash}}31 August 1984) was an Italian pianist, music teacher and conductor.

Zecchi was born in Rome. A pupil of F. Baiardi for piano and of L. Refice and A. Bustini for composition, he began his career as a concert pianist at only seventeen years of age.{{Cite web |title=Carlo Zecchi on Treccani, the Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-zecchi/|website=Treccani|language=it}} He later studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni and Artur Schnabel in Berlin.{{cite book|last=Slonimsky|first=Nicolas|title=Baker's Biographical dictionary of musicians.|year=1978|publisher=Schirmer Books|location=New York|isbn=0-02-870240-9|edition=6th|page=1939|chapter=Zecchi, Carlo}} In 1938, he stopped playing the piano to study conducting with Hans Münch and Antonio Guarnieri.{{Cite web |title=Carlo Zecchi on Treccani, the Italian Encyclopedia of Science, Letters, and Arts|url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/carlo-zecchi/|website=Treccani|language=it}} He led pianistic courses in Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, and in Salzburg. He was a highly acclaimed performer of the works of Domenico Scarlatti, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Claude Debussy and of other Romantic music. He died in Salzburg.