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When debonair Count Guido Chigi-Saracini was a young music student in Florence, his teachers called him "the piano smasher." Often enough, when he came to a difficult passage, he could only bang his fists down on the keyboard in frustration and rage. After a try at composing, with little more success, he decided to take his music at one remove, pay for it rather than make it himself.' Today, after 40 years of footing bills, 70-year-old Count Chigi-Saracini has a good claim to the title of Italy's No. 1 music patron. The slim...
...year-old Chigi Musical Academy, a summer school designed to give young musicians the finishing touches they need before they make their concert debuts. To staff his academy, the count hires some of Europe's finest teachers, turns over to them 27 of the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini's 80 rooms. This summer, some 250 youngsters from 30 countries are playing, singing and waving batons in the palazzo's luxurious galleries and chambers. By month's end, the 70 most talented of them will have started an intensive two-month course under such topnotch musicians as Violinist...
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