Amintore Galli

Amyntor “Amintore” Flaminio Claudio Galli (12 October 1845 – 8 December 1919) was an Italian music publisher, journalist, historian, musicologist, and composer. Born in the Marecchia valley, Galli was educated under Alberto Mazzucato at the Milan Conservatory. Galli’s birth deed records that he was baptised in Talamello – Perticara’s church did not have a baptismal font – but his parents are recorded as living in Perticara. After graduating from Rimini’s Lyceum, in 1862, he enrolled in the Milan Conservatory. He was a pupil of Alberto Mazzucato, with whom he studied composition and the history of aesthetics and music. Galli was a contemporary of Arrigo Boito, and was introduced to the Scapigliatura artistic environment. In 1866, Galli enlisted with Boito, Franco Faccio, and Emilio Praga in Giuseppe Garibaldi’s army, Four of his band arrangements of compositions by great masters were performed in Finale Emilia. by publishing, in Galli’s words, “a collection of economically priced masterworks by the great maestri”. Galli wrote many piano reductions himself, Evaluating his directorship, some critics reproach Galli for his inability to identify operatic successes, leading them to rival