Ambrose Coviello (30 January 1887 - 31 January 1950) was an English pianist, teacher and examiner, of Italian extraction. He taught at the Royal Academy of Music for thirty years following World War 1. __NOTOC__ Early life and wartime Born in Brixton, South London, Coviello was the son of two music teachers: his father Nicola was born in Italyhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/234657190/nicola-coviello Nicola Coviello Grave. He studied with Oscar Beringer, Frederick Corder, Mathilde Verne and Paul Weingarten at the Royal Academy of Music, where he gained the Thalberg scholarship and Macfarran gold medal.Arthur Eaglefield Hull. A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians (1924), p. 103 He was appointed as a professor at the Academy in 1913, but then came World War One, during which he served with the 28th London Regiment (Artists’ Rifles), rising to the rank of Corporal. He received a DCM on 26th August 1918.Lives of the First World War: Ambrose Coviello
Royal Academy of Music Coviello was demobilised in 1920 and returned to teaching piano at the Academy, where he stayed for the rest of his life.'Front Matter', The Musical Times, Vol. 61, No. 923 (January 1920), p. 4 A colleague there was Tobias Matthay. His pupils included Cyril Stanley Christopher (1897-1979), Joan Hall Craggs (1921-2006), Dorothy Parke and Moura Lympany. Coviello published Difficulties of Beethoven Pianoforte Sonatas (OUP, 1935), Foundations of Pianoforte Technique: Co-ordination Exercises (OUP, 1946), and (following Tobias Matthay's death in December 1945) What Matthay Meant. His Musical and Technical Teachings Clearly Explained and Self-Indexed (Boswell, 1948). He contributed articles to Music Student (1920) and Monthly Musical Record (1921-22). He was also an occasional composer, of songs and piano pieces.For instance the Three Little Cameos for piano, published by Joseph Williams in 1939
Personal life Coviello died at the Academy in Marylebone, aged 63.Obituary, The Musical Times, Vol. 91, No. 1284 (February 1950), p. 74 His address (from 1930) was 84 Lowlands Road, Harrow. He married Evelyn Ursula Wadia (1896-1974) in April 1918, and there were three sons (including the artist Peter Coviello, 1930-2005) and one daughter.Who's Who in Music, Shaw Publishing (1935), p. 75Peter Coviello, ArtUK
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External links Sketch of Coviello, by Sgt Ernest Blaikley, July 1917