Florestano Rossomandi developed his musical education within the Neapolitan Pianistic School under Beniamino Cesi at the then Royal College of Music in Naples, after having passed the entrance examination for the boarding school – where young students could reside during their years of study – at just over ten years of age.

He thus moved to Naples where he remained until his death in 1933, and where he worked as a professor at the “San Pietro a Majella” Conservatory of Music from 1889 to 1929. He was the first to feel the need to write a proper didactic method capable of guiding piano teachers in the training of their students. Beniamino Cesi had also written a Piano Method, but it consisted solely of technical exercises, lacking the methodological and instructional guidance useful for teachers.

In this album dedicated to him, pianist Rosaria Dina Rizzo – the foremost scholar of the composer – presents an anthology based mainly on four-hand piano transcriptions, in keeping with a practice that the author considered of fundamental importance for the musical education of a pianist.