Roberto Michelucci (* 29. Oktober 1922 in Livorno; † 13. November 2010 in Reggello) war ein italienischer Violinist. (de)
Roberto Michelucci (29 October 1922 – 1 November 2010) was an Italian classical violinist. He obtained his diploma in violin in the courses with (1891–1966) at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Firenze. In 1950 he obtained the first absolute place at the . His discographic recordings have been admired by many critics, and among the many prizes he won at his label (Philips) some of the most important were: He won three times, between 1967 and 1969, the Grand Prix du Disque di Parigi. (Paris).1972: Gold record in Tokyo, for selling more than one million copies of Vivaldi's Four Seasons. He was the first case of a gold record obtained by a classical musician. In addition to being a member, for several years, of I Musici di Roma, he joined, among other musicians: pianists Bruno Canino, Maureen Jones and and conductors Hermann Scherchen, , Bernhard Paumgartner, Lovro von Matacic, Rudolf Kempe, Artur Rodzinsky, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, and Ernest Ansermet. He was the first Italian violinist invited to the Salzburg Festival, where he and the del Mozarteum performed Mozart's concerts K. 219 and K. 211 in August 1967 and 1968. His vast repertory included baroque through contemporary composers, and many authors composed works especially for him, for example the Concerto lirico per violino e orchestra by Valentino Bucchi. He presented, for the first time in Israel, Luigi Dallapiccola's Tartiniane per violino ed orchestra (with the Sinfonica di Haifa); in Geneva he played Ferruccio Busoni's violin concert with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and played in Florence, with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, concerts op. 19 by Sergei Prokofiev, re minor by Robert Schumann, re minor by Felix Mendelssohn. His last contribution was the recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Bach's sonatas and partitas for solo violin. He was also a member of important international musical contests, as well as a teacher in specialization courses in different places in Europe, and professor in the in Perugia and, from 1960 to 1985, at the in Florence, where he had a huge number of students. (en)