Egisto Tango (13 November 1873, in

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– 5 October 1951, in

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) was an Italian conductor, whose premieres included ''

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'' and ''

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'' by

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. His career was launched in Venice and he conducted at La Scala and the New York

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before accepting the job at the Budapest National Opera (1913-1919). According to Baker's, he moved to Copenhagen in 1929 (apparently first conducting there in 1927); according to Grove's he worked at the Volksoper in Vienna from 1925 to 1933. According to the

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advertisement of 13 January 1910, Tango was the conductor during the first live-performance public radio broadcast.

References

Short bio in Hungarian Ödön Márffy: Portrait of Egisto Tango, 1917.

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tango, Egisto Italian conductors (music) Italian male conductors (music) 1873 births 1951 deaths Musicians from Rome Italian emigrants to Denmark