Giuseppe Gallignani
Illustration — Giuseppe Gallignani Giuseppe Gallignani (January 9, 1851, Faenza - December 14, 1923, Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher. He graduated from Milan Conservatory. Author operas Il grillo del focolare (1873, one of the Christmas stories Charles Dickens - the first in the history of opera in the Dickens story), Atala (1876), Nestorius (1888) et al, as well as numerous spiritual music.
Giuseppe Gallignani
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- 1851 · Faenza.
- Died
- 1923 · Milan.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy
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- conductor · composer · music educator · chapelmaster · director · musicologist · music teacher
- Fields
- liturgical music
- Languages
- Italian
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Illustration — Giuseppe Gallignani Giuseppe Gallignani (January 9, 1851, Faenza - December 14, 1923, Milan) was an Italian composer, conductor and music teacher. He graduated from Milan Conservatory. Author operas Il grillo del focolare (1873, one of the Christmas stories Charles Dickens - the first in the history of opera in the Dickens story), Atala (1876), Nestorius (1888) et al, as well as numerous spiritual music.
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Born at Faenza in 1851, died in Milan in 1923.
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- 1.The Verdi-Boito correspondence, di Marcello Conati, Mario Medici, William Weaver; pp. 236-237 - ed. University of Chicago press.
- 2.O.Maione, I Conservatori di musica durante il fascismo. La riforma del 1930 - pag. 27, ed. EDT - IBN 8860400198
- 3.A. Della Corte - Biografia di Arturo Toscanini, pag. 173 - Ed. Studio Tesi
Bibliography printed in the source article · 4
- Dictionnaire biographique des musiciens. Robert Laffont. 1995. 2-221-06510-7.
- Storia della Musica; vol.III - pag. 347, ed. UTET
- Dizionario della Musica e dei Musicisti, vol.3 - pp. 285, UTET
- C. Ambìveri, Operisti minori dell'Ottocento italiano, p. 74, Gremese éditeur
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