Gialdini, Gialdino

1843-

Italian conductor and composer; was born at Pescia, and studied at Florence with Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with Rosmunda, which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868. His next works, composed in collaboration with others, were two comic operas, La Secchia rapita, produced in 1872, and L'idolo cinese, in 1874. For some years afterward he gave his time and attention to conducting, and was far more successful in that line of work; but since about 1890 he returned to composition, and his later operas, I due soci, given at Bologna, in 1892, and La Pupilla, at Trieste, in 1896, were successful. Besides these operas he has written a menuetto for strings; Preghiera di Sera, for orchestra, and published a collection of fifty folksongs under the name Eco dello Lombardia.