Cesare Ciardi

Biography

Cesare Ciardi (28 June 1818 – 13 June 1877) was an Italian flautist and composer.

Life

Born at Prato to a Tuscan family, Ciardi eventually settled in 1853 in Russia, where he was appointed in 1862 as professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory and became Tchaikovsky's flute teacher. Ciardi himself played as first flute in the orchestras of the Imperial Theatres in Saint Petersburg, including the orchestra of the Imperial Italian Opera and of that of the Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre. He died at Strel'na and was succeeded in his orchestral role by Ernesto Köhler.
Ciardi possessed many talents and was also a sculptor and caricaturist.

Flute/s alone

Scherzo per due flauti op. 2
Trio scolastico op. 24
Ricordi d’Album op. 43
6 Capricci “I Piaceri della Solitudine”
22 duettini
Petite trio concertant s.o.
Entr'acte for the ballet The Pharaoh's Daughter, 1862

Flute & piano

Capriccio su melodie belliniane op. 12
Fantasia sui motivi della “Beatrice da Tenda” op. 21
Scherzo “Il Carnevale di Venezia” op. 22
Fantasia sui motivi di “Luisa Miller” op. 23
Simpatie pel Rigoletto op. 27
Duo concertante sui motivi de “I due Foscari” op. 29
Fantasia “L’eco dell’Arno” op. 34
Fantasia sui motivi del “Trovatore” op. 38
Fantasia sui motivi verdiani op. 40
Divertimento sui motivi del “Trovatore” op. 41
Il lamento dell’abbandonato op. 43
Fantasia “La Capricciosa” op. 44
Fantasia “Le Rossignol du Nord” op. 45
Polka “Di chi?” op. 45bis
Canto elegiaco op. 46
Fiori Rossiniani op. 47
Valse “La Romantique” op. 60
Fantasia brillante “La Folle” op. 64
Il Pifferaro op. 122
3 Solos op. 124-126
Gran Concerto op. 129
3 Notturnes op. 133-135
2 Fantasies sur des motifs de “La vie pour le Czar” op. 211-212
Fantasie, Divertimenti, original works s.o.

Chamber music

Le Rossignol op. 61 (Soprano, fl.&p.no)
Duetto Concertante op. 121 (2fl.&p.no)
Chant Elegiaque op. 132 (vl., vc., orgue & Harp)
Variazioni brillanti su motivi russi (2fl.&p.no)
Duetto nell’opera “Maria Padilla” (2fl.&p.no)
Duetto concertante su temi del “Barbiere di Siviglia” (fl., vl.&p.no)

Orchestral works

Il Carnevale di Venezia op. 22 for flute and strings
Gran Concerto Militare (fl., cl., tr. & orch.)
Le Carnaval Russe pour flute and orchestra

Didactic works

12 preludi op. 127
6 studi per flauto (Milano, 1850)
22 Etude (Moscow, 1860)
50 Point d’Orgue pour le Conservatoire de St. Petersbourg (Leipzig, 1856)
Neue Flötenschule (Moscow, 1860)