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Alberto Lizzio was a pseudonym invented by record producer and conductor Alfred Scholz and attached to older performances, often conducted by
Milan Horvat,
Carl Melles or Scholz himself.
These performances were used to put out inexpensive classical recordings for the mass market or for
production music
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Biography
Scholz wrote a fictitious biography of Lizzio, claiming he was born in
Merano
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,
South Tyrol
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on 30 May 1926, studied violin, composition and conducting in
Milan
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,
Lombardy
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, and that his second wife, with whom he had a son, died in 1980 in a car accident in which Lizzio was severely injured. The fictitious biography concludes with his death on 22 October 1999, in
Dresden
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References
Further reading
* Scholz, Alfred ''Memoirs of Alberto Lizzio, Part I'' Published in ''L'Osservatore musicale'', May 2001, pp. 21–26.
External links
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Budget recordings of Alfred Scholz
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Italian male conductors (music)
People from South Tyrol
People from Merano
Fictional artists
Fictional Italian people
20th-century Italian conductors (music)
20th-century Italian male musicians