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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Giorgio Federico Ghedini
Person · male · Italy · Cuneo · born 1892 · died 1965 · recording since 2009
Italian composer (1892–1965)
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Also known as ジョルジョ・フェデリコ・ゲディーニ
Timeline
10 events▣ Album 7◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1890s
1960s
2000s
· Debut release
Debut release: Ghedini conducts Ghedini
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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2010s
· Album
Album: Appunti per un Credo / Musica notturna / Studi per un affresco di battaglia / Sonata da concerto per flauto e archi
Album
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2020s
Biography
English biography300 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1373830125
Biography
Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 1892 – 25 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on Billy Budd by Herman Melville.
Life
Ghedini was born in Cuneo in 1892. He studied organ, piano and composition in Turin, then graduated in composition from the Bologna Conservatory under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911. He worked as a conductor for a certain time, then he gave up to devote himself to teaching.
He worked as a teacher of composition at the Turin Conservatory (1918–1937), Parma Conservatory (1937–1941), and finally the Milan Conservatory (1951–1962). Among his pupils, the most eminent were Marcello and Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Guido Cantelli, Niccolò Castiglioni, Carlo Pinelli, and Fiorenzo Carpi.
Guido Cantelli conducted the NBC Symphony Orchestra in a 2 February 1952 broadcast concert of Ghedini's Pezzo concertante for two violins, viola, and orchestra.
He died in Nervi, near Genoa, in 1965.
Style
The composer was a deep lover of ancient music; he transcribed many works by such composers as Girolamo Frescobaldi, Claudio Monteverdi, and Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Ghedini's works are often inspired by music from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, but combined with a very personal language which combines ancient and modern styles. Among his masterworks are a Concerto for orchestra (in memory of Guido Cantelli), two violin concertos Il Belprato and Concentus Basiliensis, and a concerto for two cellos L'Olmeneta (The Elm Grove) and Musica Notturna (Night Music).
Ghedini's most celebrated concert piece is Concerto dell'Albatro (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in its final movement.
He wrote a large number of chamber, vocal and choral works. He also wrote a one-act opera based on Melville's Billy Budd, which was first performed in 1949.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -44 | 6.9th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (7 release groups · 7 studio albums)
Albums · 7
2009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 19 tracks · 1:13:19
1Concerto detto L'olmoneta: I. Allegro molto moderato e tranquillo7:462Concerto detto L'olmoneta: II. Caccia nell'Olmoneta: Allegro vivace2:463Concerto detto L'olmoneta: III. Molto adagio11:384Concerto detto L'olmoneta: IV. Allegro quieto8:005Litanie della Vergine9:596Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Theme 71:127Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercar a 34:338Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon perpetuus super thema regium2:019Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 20:3510Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2 Violini in unisono1:3911Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon per motum contrarium0:2412Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon per augmentationem, contrario motu2:1613Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon perpetuus2:2114Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2: I. Allegretto mosso0:4215Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2: II. Animato0:3516Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2: III. Più marcato0:4117Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 2: IV. Pesante0:3918Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Canon a 45:1019Musical Offering, BWV 1079: Ricercare a 610:222010 · studio album
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Tracklist · 44 tracks · 1:15:56
1Mazurka (1908)4:072Canoni: No. 1. Andantino grazioso0:363Canoni: No. 2. Andante espressivo0:554Canoni: No. 3. Andantino grazioso0:425Canoni: No. 4. Andante marcato0:416Canoni: No. 5. Allegro moderato e maestoso1:087Canoni: No. 6. Andantino grazioso0:428Canoni: No. 7. Andantino mosso espressivo0:409Canoni: No. 8. Allegretto0:3310Canoni: No. 9. Allegro moderato0:3811Canoni: No. 10. Allegro marcatissimo0:3912Canoni: No. 11. Andantino tranquillo, con molto sentimento1:3213Canoni: No. 12. Moderato maestoso0:4014Canoni: No. 13. Andante0:3815Canoni: No. 14. Andantino1:0016Canoni: No. 15. Grave, ma piùttosto mosso1:1517Canoni: No. 16. Moderato, drammatico0:4418Canoni: No. 17. Andantino1:0419Canoni: No. 18. Vivace e leggiero1:0320Canoni: No. 19. Allegro giusto1:0721Canoni: No. 20. Allegretto tranquillo1:1722Canoni: No. 21. Allegretto moderato e grazioso0:4123Canoni: No. 22. Andante mosso ma grave1:4624Canoni: No. 23. Allegro vivo e marcatissimo0:3525Canoni: No. 24. Andantino calmo e mesto1:1326Canoni: No. 25. Pesante e largo1:4327Canoni: No. 26. Andantino0:4428Canoni: No. 27. Moderato tranquillamente0:3429Canoni: No. 28. Allegretto0:4530Canoni: No. 29. Andantino grazioso0:3431Tema con variazioni sulla parola Fede8:4132La ballerina del circo equestre che danza sulla corda (1911)0:4233Minuetto del galletto nano (1912)1:2834Gavotta (1912)1:4135Nove pezzi: No. 1. Elegia3:0536Nove pezzi: No. 2. Quasi scherzo3:1137Nove pezzi: No. 3. Alla ritornello3:1438Nove pezzi: No. 4. Notturno2:3139Nove pezzi: No. 5. Pagina d'Album2:3140Nove pezzi: No. 6. Arabesca3:4341Nove pezzi: No. 7. Tempo di Valzer3:0842Nove pezzi: No. 8. Umoresca2:0543Nove pezzi: No. 9. Preludio alla fantasia6:0144Minuetto caricatura3:392011 · studio album
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Tracklist · 15 tracks · 1:04:05
1Piano Sonatina in D major: I. Allegretto grazioso2:462Piano Sonatina in D major: II. Larghetto espressivo3:123Piano Sonatina in D major: III. Finale. Rondo. Allegro con brio2:484Puerilia: No. 1. La formica. Moderatamente mosso1:115Puerilia: No. 2. Il gatto. Mosso e misterioso2:016Puerilia: No. 3. Il cucu. Dolcemente mosso2:297Puerilia: No. 4. Il gallo. Piùttosto sostenuto2:068Piano Sonata in A-flat major: I. Sereno con giubilo7:139Piano Sonata in A-flat major: II. Raccolto e grave6:2410Piano Sonata in A-flat major: III. Vivo e fresco4:2011Fantasia9:1812Divertimento contrappuntistico5:2213Capriccio5:2314Ricercare super Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes aquarum8:0515Allegretto1:27Violin Sonatas / Bizzarria / Due poemi
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 9 tracks · 1:04:32
1Bizzarria3:482Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major: I. Lentamente - Tranquillo e sereno8:423Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major: II. Andante calmo ed intensamente espressivo - Vivace in uno - Adagio8:264Violin Sonata no. 1 in A major: III. Allegro, risvegliato e giocoso6:225Due poemi: No. 1. Lentamente6:116Due poemi: No. 2. Tranquillo e misurato6:387Violin Sonata no. 2 in E-flat major: I. Appassionato7:328Violin Sonata no. 2 in E-flat major: II. Doloroso8:449Violin Sonata no. 2 in E-flat major: III. Vigoroso e ritmico8:09Architetture / Contrappunti / Marinaresca e baccanale
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 1:06:09
1Architetture: I. Allegro moderato e marcato1:202Architetture: II. Lo stesso movimento0:363Architetture: III. Lo stesso movimento, ma pesante1:404Architetture: IV. Sostenuto3:565Architetture: V. Molto lento ed espressivo5:496Architetture: VI. Allegro vivo1:567Architetture: VII. Allegro molto moderato3:208Contrappunti: I. Molto moderato e marcato10:439Contrappunti: II. Andante misterioso9:0510Contrappunti: III. Allegro vivo9:2011Marinaresca e baccanale: I. Molto sostenuto e ampio10:3012Marinaresca e baccanale: II. Presto7:542016 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 58:49
1Appunti per un Credo12:052Musica notturna11:273Studi per un affresco di battaglia18:554Sonata da concerto per flauto e archi16:222022 · studio album
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Tracklist · 8 tracks · 47:02
1Piano Trio: I. Allegro vibrato e veemente6:442Piano Trio: II. Molto sostenuto e vibrato8:123Piano Trio: III. Vigoroso con fuoco6:444Due intermezzi: I. Tranquillo6:025Due intermezzi: II. Bizzarro4:236Piano Trio: I. Allegro con fuoco4:507Piano Trio: II. Adagio cantabile6:148Piano Trio: III. Allegro3:53
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Giorgio Federico Ghedini head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 13 | 67.6th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 7 | 80.4th |
| Studio albums | 7 | 87.5th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 10 | 86.7th |
| Recording span (years) | -44 | 6.9th |
| Genres | 5 | 88.3th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://musicbrainz.org/artist/5d8d2bda-9121-47ca-92fe-41ab0710ee30discography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Federico_Ghedinibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giorgio_Federico_Ghedini
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Image: Vicari · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q1118972 · MusicBrainz: 5d8d2bda-9121-47ca-92fe-41ab0710ee30
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