TEBALDINI, GIOVANNI. - Musician, b. in Brescia on Sept. 7, 1864, d. in S. Benedetto del Tronto on May 12, 1952.

Having completed his studies also abroad, he was a teacher and director in various cities: Venice, Padua, Parma, Loreto, Naples, Genoa. In the musical field, besides composing masses and various sacred music, he transcribed into modern orchestral score the Rappresentazione di Anima e Corpo by E. del Cavaliere, as well as the Euridice by Peri and Caccini. He carried out his most fruitful work in favor of the reform of sacred music, as a writer and lecturer, researcher and scholar, earning the full approval of Bl. Pius X. Most significant writings: La musica sacra in Italia (1894); L'Archivio musicale della Cappella Antoniana di Padova (1895); L'Archivio musicale della Cappella Lauretana (1922); Il canto gregoriano e la musicalità palestiniana, in the journal Il pensiero musicale, 1922-23, and many articles in the Rivista musicale italiana and other periodicals.

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BIBL.: M. Pilati, G. T., in Boll. bibliografico musicale, Milan 1930, p. 121 ff.; L. Ronga, Ricordo di G. T., in Boll. Ceciliano, 47 (1952), p. 103.

Luisa Cervelli

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Tebaldini, Giovanni

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