Teodulo Mabellini
Maestro dell'Ottocento musicale fiorentino
edited by Carlo Paradiso
(Essays, 6)

XVI, 552 pp.; 21 x 14,8 cm

A student of Saverio Mercadante’s, Teodulo Mabellini (Pistoia, 1817 - Florence 1897) was a major figure on the 19th-century Florence scene, from the Grand Duchy of Tuscany to unified Italy. Mabellini was a multifaceted personality—composer (of operas, sacred music, hymns, and cantatas), conductor, and teacher, with scores of students. His life and work are discussed in this book, which also hosts a catalog of his works and essays on such specific topics as, Mabellini’s music for the theater and its fortune, his ceremonial music, his deep commitment to sacred music, his contribution to teaching and organization of musical events. The Appendix contains his autobiography and several concise bios of his many students.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Prefazione 
Marcello de Angelis

Premessa del curatore

Le fonti 
Claudio Paradiso

La musica in Toscana nell’Ottocento 
Bianca Maria Antolini

La vita 
Claudio Paradiso

«Lode e gloria al genio ligure»: Rolla (1840) di Giachetti-Mabellini 
Mariateresa Dellaborra

Gian Luigi Fieschi: fra dramma e melodramma 
Armando Fabio Ivaldi

Compiti celebrativi e impegno civile nelle cantate mabelliniane 
Francesco Bissoli

Le messe: evoluzione di uno stile 
Gabriele Moroni

La fortuna di Mabellini dallo spoglio delle principali riviste dell'epoca 
Paolo Gaviglio e Nicoletta Furnari

Produzione e commercio degli strumenti musicali a fiato nella Toscana del XIX secolo 
Francesco Carreras e Alessandro Onerati

Teodulo Mabellini e Francesco Florimo attraverso un’inedita corrispondenza 
Antonio Caroccia

Le lettere. Catalogo 
Claudio Paradiso

I manoscritti musicali di Teodulo Mabellini nel “Fondo Mabellini” della Biblioteca Federiciana di Fano 
Lilia Flavia Fidenti

Prima ricognizione delle fonti mabelliniane conservate in Toscana 
Stefania Gitto e Nicola Bianchi

Catalogo delle opere 
Claudio Paradiso

Autobiografia di Teodulo Mabellini

Gli allievi di Teodulo Mabellini

Bibliografia

Indice dei nomi

Claudio Paradiso, (Rome, 1960) Flautist-conductor, researches and performs 18th- and 19th-century Italian instrumental music. He founded the chamber orchestra, “I Fiati di Parma” and has been conducting it since 1990. He conceived the DMI (Dictionary of Music in Italy) and is curator of the associated Archivio dei Musicisti Italiani, Latina. He recorded for Amadeus, EdiPan, Editions De Santis, EMI-Academie de Musique de Sion, Classic Voice, All India Radio, Channel 5, Radio de la Suisse Romande, RAI RadioTre, Vatican Radio, Süddeutsche Rundfunk, and EBU (European Broadcasting Union); also, he edited many works for/with winds by Italian composers (Belloli, Bolzoni, Carulli, Cavallini, Cimarosa, Codivilla, de Giovanni, Diana, Dotti, Druzecky, Gariboldi, Giorgetti, Hugues, Lippolis, Lovreglio, Mabellini, Mancinelli, Margola , Mercadante, F. Morlacchi, P. Morlacchi, Pagani, Petrini Zamboni, Pugni, Reicha, Romanino, Rossini, Ruge, Sangiorgi, Savi, Scontrino, Sivori, Tadolini, Taveggia, Toja, Viotti). He also edited Ferdinando Giorgetti’s Fourth Quartet and Air varié (Rome: SEdM), as well as several essay collections, such as those on Luigi Hugues (Casale Monferrato: 2001), Arrigo Tassinari (Cento: 2009), and Orlando Iori (Modena: 2011), Il flauto in Italia (Rome: Libreria dello Stato – Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 2005), Ferdinando Giorgetti musicista romantico a Firenze (Rome: SEdM, 2015); Inediti aspetti musicali del Ventennio (Latina: 2015). His book on the Collegium Musicum Italicum / I Virtuosi di Roma ensemble is in preparation. He currently teaches at the Perugia Conservatory.