{{short description|Italian composer}}
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'''Angelo Palumbo''' (died 1960) was an Italian musician, composer and music teacher, mainly active in London.
==As a musician and teacher== Palumbo was a specialist of various fretted instruments, and his advertisements in the trade journal ''B.M.G.'' shows that he taught guitar as well as banjo, mandolin and violin playing.<ref>See, for example, ''B.M.G.'' May 1958, page 212.</ref> He himself also played several of these instruments as a member of "Troise and his Mandoliers", a band led by fellow Italian immigrant Pasquale Troise (1895–1957). This band recorded frequently and also made regular radio appearances.<ref>[http://www.turnipnet.com/mom/troise.htm Pasqual Troise on the ''Masters of Melody'' website. Angy Palumbo can be seen in the third photo on the page, sitting to the extreme right in the front row.]</ref>
British-American banjoist John A. Sloan (born 1923) was one of Palumbo's pupils as a youngster and witnessed that Palumbo was an excellent but also very temperamental musician.
==As composer== During his career, Palumbo composed several numbers. His 6/8 March ''It's Up To You'' (lyrics: Arthur Beale) from 1940<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mStjAAAAIAAJ&dq=palumbo+%22it%27s+up+to+you%22&pg=PA1685 Library of Congress: ''Catalog of copyright entries, Volume 35, Part 2''.]</ref> became familiar to Swedish audiences by being used in the soundtracks for two of the popular films about private eye Hillman in 1958 and 1959.<ref>[http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=65955 Angy Palumbo in Svensk filmdatabas (Swedish movie database)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108122924/http://www.sfi.se/sv/svensk-filmdatabas/Item/?type=PERSON&itemid=65955 |date=8 November 2014 }}</ref> In more recent years his ''Petite Bolero for Mandolin & Guitar'' has appeared on the CD ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin and the Latin Trilogy – Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernières''.<ref>[http://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=CHAN%209780 Track information from Chandos Records for ''Captain Corelli's Mandolin and the Latin Trilogy – Music from the Novels of Louis de Bernières'' (Chandos CHAN9780)]</ref>
In addition to the numbers listed above, John A. Sloane has also mentioned a composition called ''Hillderino'', and the British Library lists the following additional works by Palumbo:<ref>[http://catalogue.bl.uk:80/F/M32ARDV7KG9RM3ANYGQK6V3KK1L5FA9L88EX3D8M9FV5UK8JX3-04192?func=short-sort&set_number=164354&sort_option=01---D02---A Angy Palumbo in the catalogue of the British Library]</ref> * ''Take It Easy'' (1939) * ''Segoviana'' (1939) * ''Penelope'' (1965) * ''Marcietta Espagnol'' (1965) * ''Party Waltz'' (1966) * ''Lazy Moments'' (1967) * ''Carminetta'' (1967) The five titles from the 1960s are all listed as "plectrum guitar solos".
==Life and death== According to John A. Sloan, Palumbo had a physical disability, one of his legs being several centimetres shorter than the other. Sloan's recollection was also that Palumbo was in his mid-fifties in the middle of the 1930s, that he had a wife and a daughter and that he was a cousin of Pasqual Troise. His lessons were given in Navarino Road in Hackney.
According to ''B.M.G.'' Angy Palumbo died in October 1960.<ref>''B.M.G.'' January 1961, page 133.</ref>
==Main sources== * [http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=1775812&fileOId=1776322 Sven Bjerstedt: "Angy Palumbo – The pen name that was real" in ''B.M.G.'' (winter issue 2009)] * [http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=A0q51m7L20Rx&EID=8d295a6a-2371-4a4d-8b82-73d4a3a8ac47&skip=true Emma Bartholomew: "Searching for memories of the man with the mandolin" in ''Hackney Gazette'' November 19, page 24.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304102253/http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/launch.aspx?referral=other&pnum=&refresh=A0q51m7L20Rx&EID=8d295a6a-2371-4a4d-8b82-73d4a3a8ac47&skip=true |date=4 March 2016 }}
==References== <references/>
==External links== * [http://www.paperclipdesign.com/19ctunes/pbolero_palumbo.gif The printed music for Palumbo's composition ''Petite Bolero'']
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