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Born and raised in Milan, Italy, Alba Rosa revealed an unusual musical talent early in life. At the age of eight she was admitted under scholarship to the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where she studied violin, piano, music theory, and harmony. After finishing her studies her mother took her to Montevideo, Uruguay, in search of a better life than appeared possible in Italy. Subsequently she went for advanced studies to the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, Belgium, for two years, where she received her diploma with honors. Thereafter she pursued private studies in Vienna (with Otokar Sevcik). After her marriage to Jan Fresemann Viëtor, a Dutchman, she took composition lessons in Neuchatel, Switserland, with Paul Benner. Throughout her career she was active as a distinguished concert violinist (in South America, but also in Holland) and a teacher of the violin, piano and other aspects of music. She held teaching positions in Montevideo, Buenos Aires and later in New York and Washington. In the nineteen thirties she was first violinist of the Viëtor String Quartet in Montclair NJ. The last fourty years of her life she was active as a composer of a number of works in all kinds of genres, which have been performed, reviewed and recorded, mostly in Washington. During her career as a soloist she was able to play a Guadagnini violin of 1775 which she had been given on loan by Olga Valerio, a Milanese mecenas.
The Story of Alba Rosa Viëtorhas been published september 2009.
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