Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American composer and educator (died 1968)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

Italian-Jewish composer (1895–1968)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for…