Riccardo Gandolfi
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Riccardo Gandolfi (16 February 1839 – 6 April 1920) was an Italian composer and music critic.


Biography

Born in
Voghera The Castle of Voghera in a 19th-century etching. Voghera ( Vogherese dialect of Emilian: ''Vughera''; Latin: ''Forum Iulii Iriensium'') is a town and ''comune'' in the Province of Pavia in the Italian region Lombardy. The population was 39,374 ...
. His mother Camilla Guiscardi was a painter. He was sent to study musical composition in the
Conservatory of Naples Conservatory may refer to: * Conservatory (greenhouse) A conservatory is a building or room having glass or other transparent roofing and walls used as a greenhouse or a sunroom. Usually it refers to a space attached to a conventional build ...
under C. Conti. He then moved to Florence to study under
Teodulo Mabellini Teodulo Mabellini (2 April 1817 – 10 March 1897) was an Italian composer. Life Early education in Pistoia and Firenze He was the son of Vincenzo, a strumentaio (maker of musical instruments) specialized in wind instruments.Francesco Bussi, ' ...
and
Giovanni Pacini Giovanni Pacini (11 February 17966 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The fami ...
. His first opera, ''Aldina'', was staged in the Santa Radegonda theater of Milan. His second opera, ''Il paggio'', was staged at the Royal Theater of Turin. He also wrote ''Il Conte di Monreale'' and ''Caterina di Guisa''. He wrote a number of symphonic and chamber works, including a requiem for King Carlo Alberto played in the Turin Cathedral. He wrote a cantata ''Il battesimo di Santa Cecilia'' (1875). However, Gandolfi served for two decades as libarian of the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence, and is best remembered for his publications on music and musicians.


Publications

*''Appunti intorno all'arpa, all'oboe e all'organo'' (Florence 1887); *''
Giacomo Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...
'', in Rassegna nazionale, 16 May 1887, pp. 257-267; *''Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landino'', ibid., 1 December 1888, pp. 538-549; *''Commemorazione di W.A. Mozart'', in Atti dell'Accademia del Regio Istituto musicale di Firenze, XXVIII (1891); *''Illustrazioni di alcuni cimeli concernenti l'arte musicale in Firenze'', ibid., XXIX (1892); *''Indice di alcuni cimeli esistenti nella Biblioteca del Regio Istituto musicale Cherubini di Firenze'', ibid., XXIX (1892); *''Appunti di storia musicale. C. Malvezzi, E. de' Cavalieri'', in Rassegna nazionale, 16 November 1893, pp. 297-306; *''Dell'opera in musica, in Atti dell'Accademia del Regio Istituto musicale di Firenze'', XXXII (1895); *''Appunti attorno al pianoforte'', Firenze 1895; *''Alcune considerazioni intorno alla riforma melodrammaticadi Giulio Caccini detto Romano'', Rivista Musicale Italiana, III (1896), pp. 714-720; *''Onoranze fiorentine a Gioacchino Rossini'', in Atti dell'Accademia del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze, XXXIX (1902); *''Accademia dedicata all'ouverture nell'arte italiana, in Rivista musicale italiana'', X (1903), pp. 396 ss.; *''Due accademie di musica date per esercizio e cultura degli alunni (Dell'arte del violino e del violoncello in Italia - La musica di G. Raff)'', ibid. XI (1904), pp. 650 ss.; *''In onore di antichi musicisti fiorentini'', in Rassegna nazionale, 1° dic. 1906, pp. 566-569; *''
Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata Luigi Ferdinando Casamorata (15 May 1807 – 24 September 1881) was an Italian composer and music critic. Life Before 1849 Born in Würzburg in the Grand Duchy of Würzburg (now Bavaria), Casamorata was the son of the Grand Duke's inspector Luigi ...
'', in Ricordi musicali fiorentini, II (1906-07); *''Alcune notizie sulla Società filarmonica in occasione del centenario di G. Haydn'', ibid., IV (1908-09); *''La Cappella musicale della corte di Toscana (1593-1859)'', Rivista Musicale italiana, XVI (1909), pp. 506-530; *'' Luigi Gordigiani'', in Ricordi musicali fiorentini, V (1909-10), pp. 1-8; *''Il centenario artistico di
Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...
e la Società filarmonica fiorentina'', ibid., VII (1911-12), pp. 1-15; *''Intorno al Codice membranaceo di ballate e canzoncine di autori diversi con musica a 2, 3 e 4 voci esistente nella Biblioteca del R. Istituto musicale di Firenze'', in Rivista Musicale italiana, XVIII (1911), pp. 537-545; *''Cinque lettere inedite di Giuseppe Verdi'', ibid., XX (1913), pp. 168 ss. He was honored as a cavaliere di Great Cross and awarded the medal of the Corona d'Italia in 1912.Rivista enciclopedica contemporanea
Editore Francesco Vallardi, Milan, (1921), entry by GCP, page 30.


References

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