Amyntor Flaminio Claudio Galli (Amintore Galli) (1845–1919) was an Italian composer,

musicologist Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some m ...

, and journalist.

Life

He was born in Perticara,

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on 12 October 1845, but began his musical studies with his uncle Pio Galli in

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until 1862 when he enrolled in the

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to be a pupil of Alberto Mazzucato. He would there compose the aria ''Cesare al Rubicone'' to be performed in the Teatro Vittorio Emanuel II in Rimini in 1864 and 1865 and after serving in the

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under Giuseppe Garibaldi in the

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, graduated with the canata ''Espiazione''. He then moved to

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where he became bandmaster in the city chapel and director of the town band between 1871 and 1873, as well as director of the Finale Emilia school from 1871 to 1873. In 1869, he began his career as a journalist as well, being art director of Stabilimento Musicale Sonzogno and editor of

Edoardo Sonzogno Edoardo Sonzogno (21 April 1836 – 14 March 1920) was an Italian publisher. A native of Milan, Sonzogno was the son of a businessman who owned a printing plant and bookstore. When he inherited the business upon his father's death he set ab ...

's Euterpe though Sonzongno never credited him. In 1873 he moved to

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once again to be Chairman of Counterpoint and Musical Aesthetics at the Conservatory of which he studied in, as well as music critic of the newspapers Il Secolo and editors of Il Teatro Illustrata and La Musica Popolare, all of which owned by Sonzogno. In this, he mainly translated French opera librettos and publishing singing and piano sheet music of multiple opera scores. After gaining substantial fame from his composing and journalism, in 1894 he purchased a holiday home in Rimini but in 1906 or 1907 quit journalism, and in 1914 retired completely and moved to Rimini, where he died on December 8, 1919. The Teatro Vittorio Emanuel II, was renamed Teatro Amintore Galli in his name but was bombed in World War Two. The La Sagra Musicale Malatestiana music festival annually honours the theatre, as Rimini had not had a full theatre since. His original manuscripts are preserved in Rimini's Biblioteca Civica Gambalunga.

Selected works

* 1864, Milan, ''Cesare al Rubicone'' * 1866, Milan, ''Espiazione'' * 1870, Milan, ''La musica ed i musicisti dal secolo X sino ai nostri giorni'' * 1876,

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, ''Il corno d'oro'' o ''Un'avventura nel serraglio'' * 1879, Milan, ''Alberto Mazzucato. Cenni commemorativi'' * 1879, Milan, ''Elementi di armonia'' * 1879, Milan, ''La musica dei greci, degli arabi e degli indiani'' * 1881, Milan, ''Storia ed estetica della musica'' * 1886, Milan, ''Saggio storico-teoretico sulla notazione musicale'' * 1887, Milan, ''Otello di Giuseppe Verdi. Cenni analitici'' * 1889, Milan, ''Il canto di sala e di teatro'' * 1889, Milan, ''Manuale del capo-musica. Trattato di strumentazione per banda'' * 1889, Milan, ''Il polifonista al pianoforte'' * 1891, Milan, ''Elementi di solfeggio, in chiave di sol per una e per due voci'' * 1891, Milan, ''Piccolo lessico del musicista'' * 1897, Milan, ''Strumenti e strumentazione'' * 1898, Milan, ''Etnografia musicale'' * 1899, Turin, ''Estetica della musica'' * 1904, Turin, e ''David'' * Milan, ''Del canto liturgico cristiano'' * Milan, ''Corso di musica sacra. L'omofonia della chiesa latina e la sua armonizzazione''

References

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