Biography
Victor de Sabata was born in Trieste in 1892, received a broad musical education from his father, a choirmaster, and graduated with distinction in 1910 from the Royal Conservatory in Milan, studying counterpoint with Michele Saladino among others. As early as 1918, at 26, he became conductor at the Monte Carlo opera; from 1929 he worked at La Scala in Milan, leading the house artistically as Arturo Toscanini's successor until 1953, and is regarded, alongside Toscanini, as one of the leading Italian opera conductors of the twentieth century. As a composer he wrote the symphonic poems "La notte di Platone" and "Gethsemani" among other works, and with "Il macigno" (1917) his only full-length opera, though he remained famous chiefly as a conductor. De Sabata died in 1967 in Santa Margherita Ligure.
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