chamber music for many years, facilitating training courses at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he was an academic and a member of the Board of Directors. He taught courses and seminars in other music institutes, including those in Buenos Aires, Barcelona, Dublin, and Tokyo. Teaching was one of his largest passions (among his students were Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna, Sayaka Shoji, Uto Ughi and the Tokyo Quintet), to which he remained greatly committed. As Constantin Zanidache, a close collaborator of his for over twenty years at the Accademia Chigiana, wrote, "during his lessons, he was able to create highly intense and emotive atmospheres. His lessons, often very strict, still never failed to make his students fall in love." Instruments and repertoire In the course of his career Brengola played numerous violins: mainly the violins of his friend Ansaldo Poggi; but also the "Contessa Crespi" (1747) by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini; the "Conte di Fontana" (1702) by Antonio Stradivari (previously owned by David Oistrakh); and, in the eighties, an instrument made by Roberto Regazzi, a violin maker of Bologna. His concert activity was particularly dedicated to rediscovering the works of Boccherini for piano and violin and for quintets and sextets, which he recorded on vinyl. (The role of the Academy in the rediscovery and exploration of the manuscripts of Antonio Vivaldi is considerable.) He also performed twentieth-century music, of which he frequently gave first performances and interpretations. He performed works by Franco Alfano, Virgilio Mortari, Vito Frazzi, Giuseppe Martucci, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Alfredo Casella, Franco Ferrara, Ottorino Respighi, Mario Zafred, Angelo Francesco Lavagnino, Cesare Nordio, Ferruccio Busoni, Antonio Veretti, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Goffredo Petrassi, Mario Peragallo, Luciano Berio, Irma Ravinale, and others. Off-air recordings include the Mozart Sinfonia Concertante K364 (with Dino Asciolla, conducted by Vittorio Gui, 1963); Mendelssohn Violin concerto (conductor Fulvio Vernizzi, 1958); Stravinsky Violin concerto (conductor Sergiu Celibidache, 1967); Prokofiev 1st Violin concerto (conductor Franco Caracciolo, 1963); Alban Berg Violin concerto (conductor Erich Leinsdorf, 1961). Among his formal recordings are the three Brahms Violin Sonatas with Pier Narciso Masi at the piano (UNICEF - FC UO 06, May 1982). The Chigiano Quintet recorded the quintets of Boccherini, Bloch, Brahms, Schumann, Shostakovich and Dvořák for Decca Records during the early 1950s. Brengola’s tours abroad and the courses at the Chigiana put him in contact with many musicians, including Alfredo Casella, George Enescu, Franco Ferrara, Luciano Berio, Andres Segovia,