Sergio Lauricella (June 19, 1921 – May 2, 2008) was an Italian

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and def ...

and music educator. He was born in

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

. In 1948 he won a bronze medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Toccata per Pianoforte" ("

Toccata Toccata (from Italian ''toccare'', literally, "to touch", with "toccata" being the action of touching) is a virtuoso piece of music typically for a keyboard or plucked string instrument featuring fast-moving, lightly fingered or otherwise virt ...

for piano"). From 1979 through 1991 he was the director of the

Genoa Conservatory The Conservatorio Niccolò Paganini (English: Conservatory of Music Niccolò Paganini), better known in English as the Genoa Conservatory, is a music conservatory in Genoa, Italy. The school was founded in 1829 as the Scuola Gratuita di Canto, ...

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External links

Sergio Lauricella's profile at Sports Reference.com
1921 births 2008 deaths Italian male composers Olympic bronze medalists in art competitions Composers from Naples 20th-century Italian musicians Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Italian male musicians Art competitors at the 1948 Summer Olympics Academic staff of the Genoa Conservatory {{Italy-composer-stub