Aladino Di Martino

Aladino Di Martino (1908–1989) was an Italian composer and teacher, born in San Pietro Avellana, Molise. He began studying the trumpet with his father before entering Naples’s San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in 1923. His teachers included Gennaro Napoli for composition, Giovanni Barbieri for piano and Giuseppe Cotrufo for organ.

His teaching career took him to several cities in southern Italy, notably Foggia and Naples, where he taught composition, fugue and counterpoint. His pupils included composers, performers and conductors such as Gaetano Panariello and Riccardo Muti. His music draws on the Neapolitan tradition while exploring twentieth-century harmonic and instrumental possibilities. It includes piano, chamber, orchestral and vocal works, with a particular affinity for concise forms and expressive instrumental dialogue.