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# 77 MARCH 21 , 2016
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GREAT ITALIANS OF THE PAST:
RENATO CAROSONE
By Giovanni Verde
One can easily recognize
the unmistakable smile of
Renato Carosone. His smiling face while playing the
piano, as it were an easy
job, reveals Carosone’s slight greatness. Renato Carosone (Naples, 3 January
1920) studied piano from
a young age, encouraged
by the will of his father,
who was a theatrical impresario and a mandolin
player. He graduated in
piano at the Conservatorio di Napoli in the church
of Saint Peter in Majella, at
the age of seventeen.
Carosone’s first relevant
experience took place in
Africa. On August 1937,
he landed in Eritrea: he
would stay in Addis Ababa working as orchestra
leader until the outbreak of the First World War,
when he was called up to
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