Giovanni Tebaldini

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 to music by his cousin, Father Giovanni Piamarta , who was later beatified . From 1883 he studied at the Conservatory of Milan with Antonio Bazzini , Angelo Panzini and Amilcare Ponchielli . He had lessons in Gregorian chant and vocal polyphony with Guerrino Amelli . At the same time he published articles in various Milanese magazines, including a. in Giulio Ricordi's Gazzetta Musicale di Milano .

From 1885 he directed the Schola Cantorum in Vaprio d'Adda. He was then organist in Piazza Armerina in Sicily and in 1887 resumed journalism in Milan. A scholarship from the Wagner Association enabled him to study at the church music school in Regensburg with Franz Xaver Haberl and Michael Haller .

In 1889 Tebaldini became director of the Schola Cantorum and second conductor of the Cathedral of San Marco in Venice. In 1892 he founded the magazine La Scuola Veneta di Musica Sacra . In 1894 he became Kapellmeister at Basilica di Sant'Antonio , where he organized the festival for the 800th birthday of the saint.

From 1897 to 1902 he directed the Parma Conservatory. Musicians like Ildebrando Pizzetti , Vito Frazzi , Bruno Barilli , Giulio Bas and Agide Tedoldi were among his students. In 1903 he was commissioned with Marco Enrico Bossi , Giuseppe Terrabugio , Giuseppe Gallignani and others to implement the reform of Italian church music according to the Apostolic Letter in the form of a motu proprios Tra le sollecitudini .

Between 1917 and 1923 Tebaldini directed the Concerti Spirituali in Bologna, and in 1921 he was commissioned to perform the Trilogia Sacra on the 600th birthday of Dante Alighieri in Ravenna. From 1925 he taught Esegesi del canto gregoriano e della polifonia palestriniana ("Exegesis of Gregorian chant and polyphony according to Palestrina") at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in Naples. 1930–31 he directed the Ateneo Musicale Claudio Monteverdi in Genoa.

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Tebaldini composed almost 150 church music works, as well as pieces for solo instruments, chamber music and some orchestral works. He also worked on compositions by old Italian masters such as Claudio Monteverdi , Giacomo Carissimi , Emilio de 'Cavalieri , Jacopo Peri , Giulio Caccini , Girolamo Frescobaldi , Giovanni Battista Bassani and Giovanni Lenzei and republished them.

As a musicologist, Tebaldini published in almost all the well-known Italian music magazines of his time. He also published u. a. an organ school, monographs on numerous old and contemporary composers and music-aesthetic writings.

Web links

• Giovanni Tebaldini - musicista i musicologo , biography, bibliography, catalog raisonné (Italian, partly English)