Leonardo de Lorenzo

• Born on the 29th of august 1875 at Viggiano near Potenza, Italy
• First contact with the flute at the age of 8.
• Wandering flutist until emigration to America at the age of 16.
• 1896 return to to Italy for military service.
• Member of a military band ander Giovanni Moranzoni
• Start of the composition Nove Grandi Studi
• After military service tour of Europe and Africa
• At 25 first job in an orchestra in Cape Town.
• 1903 change to the boehm flute
• 1907 return to Naples, studies and diploma
• 1909 going to America again
• 1910 first flutist of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra ander Gustav Mahler
• In addition flutist in orchestras in Minneapolis, Los Angeles and Rochester
• 1923-1935 professor for flute at the Eastern School of Music
• 1935 reatreat as an active flutist and concentration on composition and writing of theoretical publications.
• 1947 completion of the book My Complete Story of the Flute, published in 1951
• Wrote many methods and studies, e. g. L'Arte Moderna del Preludio.
• His about 300 compositions are technically difficult.
• Died on the 29th of july 1962 in Santa Barbara

Last update: 17.02.2010