Giovanni Tebaldini (7 September 1864 – 11 May 1952) was an Italian

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and

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Life

He studied with

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at the Conservatory of

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and later with

Franz Xaver Haberl Franz Xaver Haberl (12 April 1840, in Oberellenbach (today Mallersdorf-Pfaffenberg), Lower Bavaria – 5 September 1910, in Ratisbon) was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt, Perosi, and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske. He m ...

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. He was ''

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'' in several Italian cities and later director of the Conservatory of

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and director of Santa Casa di Loreto.

Compositions

Organ solo

*''Trois Pièces d’Orgue'' (1896)

Theoretical works

*''Metodo di studio per l’Organo moderno'' (1894)

Writings

*''La musica sacra in Italia'' (1893) *''L’archivio musicale della Cappella antoniana in Padova'' (1895) *''La musica sacra nella storia e nella liturgia'' (1904)

Sources

*Horwath, Michael (1970). ''Tebaldini, Gnecchi and Strauss''. (in Italian). *Pilati, Mario (1929). "''Giovanni Tebaldini'' ". ''Bollettino bibliografico musicale''. (in Italian). *Untersteiner, Alfredo (1895). ''Giovanni Tebaldini e la riforma della musica da chiesa''. (in Italian).

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* 1864 births 1952 deaths 20th-century classical composers 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian male musicians Composers for pipe organ Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Italian classical organists Italian musicologists Male classical organists Milan Conservatory alumni People from Brescia {{Italy-composer-stub