Riccardo Gandolfi

Riccardo Gandolfi (16 February 1839 – 6 April 1920) was an Italian composer and music critic. Biography Born in Voghera. His mother Camilla Guiscardi was a painter. He was sent to study musical composition in the Conservatory of Naples under C. Conti. He then moved to Florence to study under Teodulo Mabellini and Giovanni Pacini. His first opera, Aldina, was staged in the Santa Radegonda theater of Milan. His second opera, Il paggio, was staged at the Royal Theater of Turin and used as libretto by Giovanni Peruzzini. He also wrote Il Conte di Monreale and Caterina di Guisa. He wrote a number of symphonic and chamber works, including a requiem for King Carlo Alberto played in the Turin Cathedral. He wrote a cantata Il battesimo di Santa Cecilia (1875). However, Gandolfi served for two decades as librarian of the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence, and is best remembered for his publications on music and musicians. Publications *Appunti intorno all’arpa, all’oboe e all’organo (Florence 1887); *Giacomo Rossini, in Rassegna nazionale, 16 May 1887, pp. 257–267; *Una riparazione a proposito di Francesco Landino, ibid., 1 December 1888, pp. 538–549; *Commemorazione di W.A. Mozart, i