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Luciano Chailly died on Christmas Eve, 2002, aged 82. His lasting place in musical history is doubly assured : not just by his vast array of challenging, elegant, sympathetic and expressionistic compositions in so many musical media, but as father to three of Italy's most engaging and successful artistic personalities. Each of them followed some aspect of his career. Of his daughters, Floriana became a leading RAI and independent Radio and Television producer. Cecilia is an internationally acclaimed harpist. His son, the internationally renowned conductor Riccardo Chailly, is Music Director of Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra and of the vibrant new Giuseppe Verdi Choir and Orchestra of Milan.