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Tier 3 · vertical & regional
Giulio Briccialdi
Person · male · Kingdom of Italy · Terni · born 1818 · died 1881 · recording since 2013
Italian musician (1818–1881)
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Also known as Carlo Briccialdi · ジュリオ・ブリッチャルディ
Timeline
6 events▣ Album 3◦ Birth 1† Death 1★ Debut release 1
1810s
1880s
2010s
· Debut release
Debut release: Operatic Fantasies
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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Biography
English biography259 words · 2 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1321815193
Biography
Giulio Briccialdi (1/2 March 1818 – 17 December 1881) was an Italian virtuoso flautist and composer, a technical innovator on his instrument and a professor of music.
Briccialdi was born in Terni. He is commonly credited for inventing the B-flat (or "Briccialdi") thumb key for the Boehm flute, but scholarship suggests that the innovation was Boehm's first. He died in Florence.
Biography
Briccialdi was born in Terni, Italy, in the Papal States on 2 March 1818 and began studying flute with his father. After his father's death, the 14-year-old Briccialdi moved to Rome to pursue a musical career and avoid family pressure to join the priesthood. His first appointment was to the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome at the age of 17.
While in Rome he studied composition and, in 1835, began teaching flute at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. He then moved to Naples, where he was the flute teacher for the royal family.
Over the next couple of years he worked in Naples and Milan, and was flute teacher to the king's brother. Then in 1841 he toured Europe and America, finally settling in London the following year.
In London he became a director of the instrument making firm Rudall and Rose and was responsible for several mechanical developments which are still in use today. He was appointed professor of flute at the Conservatoire in Florence in 1870, and remained there until his death in 1881. In 1996 the asteroid N. 7714 was named in his memory.
Briccialdi was sometimes known as “the Paganini of the flute.”
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 | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -132 | 4.5th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (3 release groups · 3 studio albums)
Albums · 3
2013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 1:05:25
1Fantasy for Flute and Piano on the Opera "Il trovatore" by Verdi10:192Free Transcription of Verdi’s "Traviata" for Flute and Piano11:003Dramatic Fantasy for Flute and Piano on the Opera "Aida" by G. Verdi7:254Fantastic Piece on Verdi’s "Ernani" for Flute and Piano7:595Fantasy for Flute and Piano on the G. Verdi Opera "Don Carlo"7:406Fantasy on Verdi’s "Macbeth" for Flute and Piano10:037Fantasy on Themes From Verdi’s Opera "Rigoletto" for Flute and Piano10:592013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 7 tracks · 57:27
1Fantasia, op. 5713:152Fantasia, op. 1089:243Fantasia, op. 1347:214Elegia di Ernst, op. 266:145Canzonetta con variazioni in Do Maggiore3:176Le Streghe, op. 1389:287Concerto in La maggiore, op. 1308:282018 · studio album
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Tracklist · 12 tracks · 53:53
1Flute Concerto no. 1 in B-flat major: I. Allegro maestoso5:342Flute Concerto no. 1 in B-flat major: II. Andante sostenuto2:033Flute Concerto no. 1 in B-flat major: III. Allegro4:354Flute Concerto no. 2 in E minor: I. Allegro marziale2:335Flute Concerto no. 2 in E minor: II. Adagio3:136Flute Concerto no. 2 in E minor: III. Allegro moderato5:247Flute Concerto no. 3 in C major: I. Allegro molto moderato8:068Flute Concerto no. 3 in C major: II. Andante un poco sostenuto3:439Flute Concerto no. 3 in C major: III. Allegro ma non tanto6:5110Flute Concerto no. 4 in A-flat major: I. Allegro ma non tanto5:3711Flute Concerto no. 4 in A-flat major: II. Valse lento1:5612Flute Concerto no. 4 in A-flat major: III. Allegro con fuoco – Allegro giusto4:18
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Giulio Briccialdi head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 9 | 54.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 3 | 77.1th |
| Studio albums | 3 | 80.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 6 | 80.8th |
| Recording span (years) | -132 | 4.5th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giulio_Briccialdibiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
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Wikidata: Q930527 · MusicBrainz: 6b78e249-6e6d-4143-94d6-e3e265b3a62f
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