Carlo Andreoli
Carlo Andreoli (8 January 1840 – 22 January 1908) was an Italian pianist.
He was born in Mirandola, Modena to the musical family of Evangelista Andreoli; his brothers included Guglielmo the Elder and the Younger. He was a pupil at the Milan Conservatory. Like his brother Carlo, he was proficient on piano, and gave well-received concerts in London.[1] However, after 1871, his health confined him to Italy and Southern France, and he became professor of the piano at Milan Conservatory. There his students included Alfredo Catalani and . From 1877-1887, with the help of his brother Guglielmo the Younger, he organized a series of 96 symphonic concerts known as the Società dei Concerti Sinfonici Popolari. He retired in 1891 due to mental illness. He died in 1908 in a shelter for the mentally ill.
A bust of him was placed in Milan Conservatory in 1910.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Grove, George, ed. (1900). . A Dictionary of Music and Musicians. London: Macmillan and Company.
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- 1840 births
- 1908 deaths
- Milan Conservatory alumni
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- 19th-century Italian musicians
- 19th-century classical pianists
- People from Mirandola
- 19th-century Italian male musicians