Remo Lauricella was a British

United Kingdom

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 composer

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 and concert

Concert

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 violin

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ist.

He was born in London

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 in 1912, his parents hailing from Catania

Catania

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 in Sicily

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. Lauricella’s father Pietro, a successful tailor with a fashionable clientele, gave him his first violin lessons. He obtained a scholarship to the Royal College of Music

Royal College of Music

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 in London. He became a friend of Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten, OM CH was an English composer, conductor, and pianist. He showed talent from an early age, and first came to public attention with the a cappella choral work A Boy Was Born in 1934. With the premiere of his opera Peter Grimes in 1945, he leapt to...

 who was a fellow student of composition under John Ireland

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. Later he studied at conservatoires in Siena

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 and Santiago de Compostela

Santiago de Compostela

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Much of his career was spent as first violinist for the London Philharmonic, although he also played chamber music in many of the world’s important music venues.

Benjamin Britten wrote a Fantasy Scherzo for piano trio, retitled "Introduction and Allegro" (unpublished) dedicated to Remo Lauricella and Bernard Richards. It was first performed on the 22nd November 1986 by Marcia Crayford (violin), Christopher Van Kampen and Ian Brown (piano) (brother of Iona Brown

Iona Brown

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 famous violinist) at Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall

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Lauricella died on 19 January 2003 in London. Upon his death, his antique Vesuvio Stradivarius (ex antonio brosa) violin, made by Antonio Stradivari

Antonio Stradivari

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 in 1727, was left to the Italian

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 town of Cremona

Cremona

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. Cremona is both the birthplace of Stradivari as well as the place where the Vesuvio was created. Lauricella owned the Vesuvio since 1968.

Work

• African Interlude, for violin and piano (dedicated to Jascha Heifetz
  Jascha Heifetz
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• Danza siciliana for violin and piano