Piero Coppola

He studied at the Milan Conservatory, graduating in piano and composition in 1910. By 1911 he was already conducting opera at La Scala opera house in Milan.
He then worked in Brussels, Belgium before spending the duration of World War I in Scandinavia.
In 1921 he resided in London and he later moved to France. Between 1923 and 1934 he was the artistic director of La Voix de son Maître, the French branch of The Gramophone Company.
In the late 1920s and 1930s Coppola conducted recordings of many works of Debussy and Ravel, including the first recordings of Debussy's La mer and Ravel's Boléro.
From 1939 onwards he worked in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he died.