Italian composer, conductor and pianist who spent most of his professional life in Dublin, Ireland. Esposito received awards for his cantata Deirdre, his Irish Symphony, his String Quartet in D major, his Violin Sonata in E minor, and his String Quartet in C minor.
Esposito became chief pianoforte professor at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in 1882, and remained there for more than forty years, devoting himself to the encouragement of classical music in Dublin. He inaugurated the Royal Dublin Society chamber-music recitals, with great success, and gave piano recitals for the Society every year. He established the Dublin Orchestral Society in 1898 and was its conductor until its disbandment in 1914, and he was also the conductor of the Sunday Orchestral Concerts until they were discontinued in 1914. He conducted concerts of the London Symphony Orchestra at Woodbrook in 1913 and 1914, and also performed his piano concerto with them under the baton of Hamilton Harty. Together with Sir Stanley Cochrane, he founded the music publishing company “C. E. Edition”.
In 1879, he married Natalia Klebnikoff (1857–1944), who hailed from St Petersburg. They had four children, including the noted scholar Mario Esposito. In the year before his death he returned to Italy and died in Florence on 19 November 1929 at age 74.
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