Giannotto Bastianelli

Born in Fiesole on July 20, 1883, and dying in Tunis on September 22, 1927, he was an Italian musicologist and music critic. Available biographical sources describe him as a composer and pianist by training, and note that he studied with Gino Bellìo and Giuseppe Bonamici.

After teaching composition and harmony, he turned increasingly toward music criticism and writing. He is associated especially with work on major figures in Italian opera, including Pietro Mascagni, and is remembered as a thoughtful commentator on music as well as a practicing musician.

The surviving online record appears fairly brief, so many details of his life are not widely documented in easily accessible sources. Even so, the outline that emerges is clear: a musician-scholar whose writing grew directly from professional musical training and close attention to the art of his time.