Victor de Sabata

Victor de Sabata was an Italian conductor and composer born in Trieste in 1892 who began his career in the early 20th century, specialising in opera and orchestral repertoire. He was noted for flexible tempi, meticulous rehearsal preparation and distinctive orchestral colour, blending late-Romantic expressiveness with early 20th-century clarity and maintaining long associations with major Italian opera houses that influenced performance practice.