Guido Agosti was an Italian pianist and piano teacher.

Agosti was born in Forlì

Forlì

Forlì is a comune and city in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. The city is situated along the Via Emilia, to the right of the Montone river, and is an important agricultural centre...

 in 1901. He studied piano with Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

, Bruno Mugellini and Filippo Ivaldi, earning his diploma at age 13. He studied counterpoint under Benvenuti and literature at Bologna

Bologna

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 University. He commenced his professional career as a pianist in 1921. Although he never entirely abandoned concert-giving, nerves made it difficult for him to appear on stage, and he concentrated on teaching. He taught piano at the Venice Conservatoire and at the Santa Cecilia Academy

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, based in Italy.It is based at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, and was founded by the papal bull, Ratione congruit, issued by Sixtus V in 1585, which invoked two saints prominent in Western...

 in Rome. In 1947 he was appointed Professor of piano at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena

Siena

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). He also taught at Weimar

Weimar

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 and the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki

Helsinki

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.

His notable students include Maria Tipo

Maria Tipo

-Biography:Tipo was born in Naples. She was taught originally by her mother, Ersilia Cavallo, who was a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni, she went on to study under Alfredo Casella and Guido Agosti.At only seventeen, she won the Geneva international piano competition...

, Yonty Solomon

Yonty Solomon

Jonathan " "Sir" Yonty" Solomon was a South African pianist who was soloist throughout the world with many of the most important symphony orchestras....

, Peter Bithell, Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard (musician)

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, Barbara Lister-Sink

Barbara Lister-Sink

Barbara Lister-Sink is a classical pianist with an international career and a specialist in injury-preventive keyboard technique. -Biography:...

, Martin Jones, Donna Amato

Donna Amato

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, Vladimir Krpan

Vladimir Krpan

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, Hamish Milne

Hamish Milne

Hamish Milne is a British pianist known for his advocacy of Nikolai Medtner.Milne studied at Bishop Wordsworth's School in Salisbury and then at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he now teaches, and later in Italy under Guido Agosti...

, Dag Achatz

Dag Achatz

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, Sergio Calligaris

Sergio Calligaris

Sergio Calligaris is a pianist, composer and piano teacher born in Rosario, Argentina on January 22, 1941. After living and tutoring in the United States, where he gained his doctorate in music, Calligaris established his residence in Italy in 1974....

, Raymond Lewenthal

Raymond Lewenthal

Raymond Lewenthal was an American pianist.-Biography:Lewenthal was born in San Antonio, Texas to Russian-French parents. His birth date is often given as 1926, but he was actually born three years earlier in 1923...

, Kun-Woo Paik

Kun-Woo Paik

Kun-woo Paik is a South Korean pianist.-Early life:Kun Woo Paik was born in Seoul. he gave his first concert, aged 10, with the Korean National Orchestra . In the following years he performed many important works in Korea, including several premieres such as Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition...

, Jean-Pierre Ferey, Daniel Pollack

Daniel Pollack

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, William Corbett Jones

William Corbett Jones

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, Angela Brownridge, Ian Munro

Ian Munro (pianist)

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, Geneviève Calame, and Eric van Griensven.

He made very few recordings; his recording of preludes by Debussy

Claude Debussy

Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

 was highly praised. He also recorded Mussorgsky

Modest Mussorgsky

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

 and Janáček

Leoš Janácek

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. His piano transcription of Stravinsky

Igor Stravinsky

Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

’s The Firebird

The Firebird

The Firebird is a 1910 ballet created by the composer Igor Stravinsky and choreographer Michel Fokine. The ballet is based on Russian folk tales of the magical glowing bird of the same name that is both a blessing and a curse to its captor....

is in the repertoire. Agosti also made an edition of Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor, WoO 80.

He played chamber music with the flautist Severino Gazzelloni

Severino Gazzelloni

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 and the cellist Enrico Mainardi

Enrico Mainardi

Enrico Mainardi was an Italian cellist, composer, and conductor.At the age of thirteen, in 1910, Mainardi had already begun his career as a cello virtuoso who toured the concert halls of Europe...

, and with the Quartetto di Roma.

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch

Ernest Bloch was a Swiss-born American composer.-Life:Bloch was born in Geneva and began playing the violin at age 9. He began composing soon afterwards. He studied music at the conservatory in Brussels, where his teachers included the celebrated Belgian violinist Eugène Ysaÿe...

’s Piano Sonata was written for Agosti.

Guido Agosti died in Milan

Milan

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in June 1989.