Giuseppe (Francesco Gabriele Patrizio Gaspare) Gariboldi (17 March 1833,

Macerata Macerata () is a city and ''comune'' in central Italy, the county seat of the province of Macerata in the Marche region. It has a population of about 41,564. History The historical city centre is on a hill between the Chienti and Potenza (ri ...

– 12 April 1905,

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) was an Italian

flautist The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

and composer. In 1856, after studies with Giuseppe D'Aloe, he moved to Paris, where he worked as a composer and flute virtuoso. From 1859 to 1861, he concerted in Belgium, Netherlands, England and Austria. During the

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, in 1870, he worked in the

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. From 1871 to 1895, he taught flute and composition at the college Rollen (now Lycée Jacques-Decour) in Paris. In 1905, he returned with his family in Italy. His works include numerous flute pieces (both solo and with piano accompaniment). A few of his studies and

étude An étude (; ) or study is an instrumental musical composition, designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill. The tradition of writing études emerged in the early 19th century with the rapidly growing popu ...

s are still used in teaching, namely ''Etudes mignonnes'' op. 131, ''20 Petites Etudes'' op. 132, ''Exercices journaliers'' op. 89 and 15 ''Etudes modernes et progressives''. Gariboldi also composed many songs and three

operetta Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera. It includes spoken dialogue, songs and including dances. It is lighter than opera in terms of its music, orchestral size, and length of the work. Apart from its shorter length, the oper ...

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Fabio Montesi: Een beroemd musicus uit Castelraimondo: Giuseppe Gariboldi Biography

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