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de Sabata and macKerras Posted by chris howell on April 1, 2009, 7:22 am 213.215.159.45 Here we go again, or is it an April Fool? Could MusicWeb and its reviewers not learn once and for all that Italian "aristocratic" surnames have a capital "D" - De Sabata, Di Stefano etc. And they're filed under "D". The fact that Gramophone has been parading its ignorance in this for at least 50 years is no excuse:"de Sabata" is strictly for those who file "macKerras" under "K". Chris Howell

Re: de Sabata and macKerras Posted by dw on April 17, 2009, 4:28 pm, in reply to "de Sabata and macKerras" You may well be right about contemporary general Italian usage. Yet, quoting Wikipedia, (which links to primary sources) "examples of the conductor's autograph signature clearly show that he spelt his name Victor de Sabata with a lower-case "d"

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