Giovanni Tebaldini
Giovanni Tebaldini ( born September 7, 1864 in Brescia, † May 11 1952 in San Benedetto del Tronto ) was an Italian composer, organist and musicologist.
Life
Giovanni Tebaldini was introduced by his cousin, the later seliggesprochenden Father Giovanni Piamarta into the music. From 1883 he studied at the Conservatory of Milan with Antonio Bazzini, Angelo and Amilcare Ponchielli Panzini. In Guerrino Amelli he took lessons in Gregorian chant and vocal polyphony. At the same time he published articles in various magazines in Milan, including in Gazzetta Musicale di Milano Giulio Ricordi.
From 1885 he headed the Schola Cantorum in Vaprio d' Adda. He was then organist in Piazza Armerina, Sicily, and took 1887 again a journalistic activities in Milan. A grant from the Wagner Society enabled him to study at the School of Church Music in Regensburg Franz Xaver Haberl and Michael Haller.
1889 Tebaldini director of the Schola Cantorum and second Kapellmeister of the cathedral of San Marco in Venice. In 1892 he founded the magazine La Scuola di Musica Sacra Veneta. In 1894 he became conductor at the Basilica di Sant'Antonio, where he organized the festival for the 800th anniversary of the saint.
From 1897 to 1902 he directed the conservatory of Parma. Here included musicians such as Ildebrando Pizzetti, Vito Frazzi, Bruno Barilli, Giulio Bas and aegis Tedoldi to his pupils. In 1903 he was commissioned jointly with Marco Enrico Bossi, Giuseppe Terrabugio, Giuseppe Gallignani and another with the implementation of the reform of the Italian church music according to the Apostolic Letter issued motu proprios Tra le sollecitudini.
Between 1917 and 1923 led Tebaldini Concerti spirituality in Bologna, 1921, he was with the performance of Trilogia Sacra to the 600 birthday of Dante Alighieri in Ravenna commissioned. From 1925 he taught " Esegesi del canto gregoriano e della polifonia palestriniana ( exegesis of the Gregorian chant and polyphony by Palestrina) at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. 1930-31 he led the Ateneo Musicale Claudio Monteverdi in Genoa.
Work
Tebaldini composed nearly 150 pieces of church music, as well as pieces for solo instruments, chamber music, and some orchestral works. He also edited the composition of old Italian masters such as Claudio Monteverdi, Giacomo Carissimi, Emilio de ' Cavalieri, Jacopo Peri, Giulio Caccini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Giovanni Battista Bassani and Giovanni Legrenzi and published it again.
As a musicologist Tebaldini published in almost all well-known Italian music magazines of his time. He also published, inter alia, an organ school, monographs on numerous ancient and contemporary composers and music aesthetic writings.