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Mattioli, Guglielmo

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MATTIOLI, GUGLIELMO. - Musician, b. in Reggio Emilia on 14 Oct. 1859, d. in Bologna on 7 May 1924. Having graduated from the Liceo musicale of Bologna in 1881, he was subsequently a teacher at the Scuola musicale of Reggio Emilia and from 1895 to 1897 a professor at the Conservatory of Parma; from 1897 to 1901 at the Liceo musicale of Pesaro, and in the years 1901-1908 director of the Istituto musicale Donizetti of Bergamo, where he was also choirmaster at S. Maria Maggiore. Transferred to Bologna, he was a teacher and director of the Liceo musicale.

An indefatigable and convinced pioneer of the reform of sacred music, he composed: masses, motets, psalms, hymns and pieces for organ, the Immacolata, a poem for soloists, chorus and orchestra, and some operas. At his death he had ready for the press an extensive Trattato pratico e ragionato di composizione polifonica, in 7 vols.

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BIBL.: Necrologio, in Bollettino Ceciliano, 19 (1924), pp. 73-74 and in S. Cecilia, 26 (1924), p. 36; C. Valabrega, G. M., in Il pensiero musicale, 2 (1924), pp. 19-23; G. B. Katschbaler, Storia della musica sacra, 3rd ed., Italian trans., Turin 1926, pp. 150, 312, 349.

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Translated from the Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII (1952), col. 502.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Mattioli, guglielmo.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, col. 502. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952. https://azioneromana.com/article/mattioli-guglielmo.

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Mattei, Silverio. “Mattioli, guglielmo.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. VIII, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1952, col. 502. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/mattioli-guglielmo.

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  author    = {Mattei, Silverio},
  title     = {Mattioli, guglielmo},
  booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
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  address   = {Città del Vaticano},
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