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, to the musical family of Evangelista Andreoli (1810-1875). He shared his name with his older brother

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, who had died nearly two years before his birth. He was also the brother of

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. He received his earliest lessons on piano and organ from his father. From 1876 he studied at the Milan Conservatory with

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(organ), Giovanni Rampazzini (violin) and

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(composition). In 1877-1887, he assisted his brother Carlo in organizing a series of 96 symphonic concerts called the ''Società dei Concerti Sinfonici Popolari''. He taught harmony, counterpoint and piano at the Milan Conservatory. His pupils included Victor de Sabata. Andreoli's compositional legacy includes a symphonic fantasy and two overtures for orchestra, Requiem, string quartet, piano and vocal compositions. Andreoli edited the Italian edition of the works of Beethoven,

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, Ignaz Moscheles,

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, and Chopin. He also published a textbook of harmony (1898, in collaboration with Edgardo Codazzi) and oversaw the release of the Italian music pedagogy at the European level of theoretical training.Nicholas Baragwanath, ''The Italian Traditions and Puccini: Compositional Theory and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Opera'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011), 21. A music school in his hometown Mirandola is named in honor of the Andreoli brothers.

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* Marco Bolzani. ''Gli Andreoli di Mirandola e i Concerti Popolari milanesi (1877—1887)''. — Edizioni «Al Barnardon», 1988. {{DEFAULTSORT:Andreoli, Guglielmo the Younger Milan Conservatory alumni 1862 births 1932 deaths Italian classical pianists Male classical pianists Italian male pianists Italian male composers Italian classical composers People from Mirandola 19th-century Italian composers 19th-century classical pianists 19th-century classical composers 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century classical pianists 20th-century classical composers Academic staff of Milan Conservatory 20th-century Italian male musicians 19th-century Italian male musicians