Giovanni Tebaldini was an Italian composer

Composer

A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

, organist

Organist

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 and musicologist

Life

He studied with Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli

Amilcare Ponchielli was an Italian composer, largely of operas.-Biography:Born in Paderno Fasolaro, now Paderno Ponchielli, near Cremona, Ponchielli won a scholarship at the age of nine to study music at the Milan Conservatory, writing his first symphony by the time he was ten years old.Two years...

 at the Conservatory of Milan

Milan

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 and later with
Franz Xaver Haberl

Franz Xaver Haberl

Franz Xaver Haberl was a German musicologist, friend of Liszt, Perosi, and Singenberger, cleric, and student of Proske....

in Regensburg

Regensburg

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. He was maestro di cappella in several Italian cities and later director of Consevaroty of
Parma

Parma

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 and director of Santa Casa di Loreto

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

• A. Untersteiner: Giovanni Tebaldini e la riforma della musica da chiesa (1895)
• M. Pilati: Giovanni Tebaldini, Bollettino bibliografico musicale (1929)
• M. Horwath: Tebaldini, Gnecchi and Strauss (1970)

External links

• http://www.tebaldini.it website dedicated to Tebaldini
• http://mariopilati.net/milano.html Mario Pilati: Giovanni Teabldini in Bollettino bibliografico musicale (1929)