Carlo Martelli is an English composer of classical music. He was born in London in 1935 (his father — born in 1887 — came to England in 1907 from northern Italy to seek work as a waiter) and was brought up in Richmond and became one of the most admired young composers in the United Kingdom while still in his teens. 　　His teachers at the RCM included Bernard Stevens and William Lloyd Webber. 　　As a young composer, Martelli had probably the greatest success of all those of his generation (which includes Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle and Richard Rodney Bennett). For example, his symphony (written when he was 19) was performed by the LSO under Norman Del Mar at the Royal Festival Hall, and was then broadcast by the BBC several times in performances by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.