De Sabata, Victor (1892–1967)

Italian conductor and composer. He studied under his father, a chorus master at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and at the Milan Conservatory with Orefice and others. He later became conductor at La Scala and at the Royal Opera in Rome, and conducted at the Monte Carlo Opera from 1918 (including the first performance of L'Enfant et les sortilèges in 1925).

He visited the USA in 1938, conducted Wagner's Tristan at Bayreuth, Germany, in 1939, and visited London, England, with the Scala company in 1950, conducting Verdi's Otello and Falstaff at Covent Garden.

Works Stage Lisistrata (after Aristophanes), Il macigno, Mille e una notte (1931); incidental music for Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.

Orchestral symphonic poems Juventus, La notte di Platon, Gethsemani, suite for orchestra.