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William Vacchiano
William Vacchiano is credited on 100 releases across 26 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
100
Pressings credited
26
Albums
8
Decades active
3
In collections
Biography
William Vacchiano (May 23, 1912 – September 19, 2005) was a trumpeter and trumpet instructor. Originally from Portland, Maine, Vacchiano studied trumpet at age 12. At 14 years old, he was playing in the Portland Symphony. For five years (1930–1935), he studied under Max Schlossberg at the latter's studio in The Bronx. He joined the New York Philharmonic in 1935 as third/assistant principal trumpet and appointed principal trumpet in 1942 by Bruno Walter. He taught at the Juilliard School for 67 years (1935–2002). He was also a professor at the Mannes College of Music from 1937 to 1983 and the Manhattan School of Music from 1935 to 2002. His students included Wynton Marsalis, Philip Smith, Charles Schlueter, Gerard Schwarz, Manny Laureano, and Miles Davis. His obituary in The New York Times quoted him saying: "This, to me, is happiness. When I feel bad I go down to the studio in my house, I pick up my horn and I'm in seventh heaven. That's what music should be like."
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Credited work
100 releases · 26 albums · active 1950–2024
- Performance · 93
- Other credits · 29
Studios: Manhattan Center · RCA Studios, New York · Philharmonic Hall, New York · Columbia 30th Street Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Vivaldi
- Shostakovich
- Bernstein
- Stravinsky
- Leonard Bernstein
- J.S. Bach
- Leopold Stokowski And His Symphony Orchestra
- Scriabin
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