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Gaetano Amadeo est ne en 1824 `a Porto Maurizio, petite ville de la Riviera ligure. Il est mort `
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Nice le 8 avril 1893. Sa notoriete lui valut une rubrique dans les dictionnaires biographiques, tels
Schmidl et Treccani en Italie, ainsi que des necrologies elogieuses dans des journaux francais, italiens
et allemands. Mais il tomba dans loubli. La plus grande partie de sa carri`ere sest faite `a Marseille,
o`
u il vecut 27 ans et fonda une ecole de plain-chant, entreprise exceptionnelle `a lepoque.
Il se forme dabord `a Lucca avec G. Pacini. A partir de 1841, il etudie `a Bologne avec Rossini, qui
lapprecie beaucoup. Il est elu membre de la cel`ebre Accademia filarmonica de Bologne en 1843.
Pourvu dune recommandation ecrite de Rossini, il sexpatrie `a Marseille o`
u il est nomme organiste de
leglise St. Joseph le 1er juin 1848, juste apr`es linauguration de lorgue de Joseph Callinet. Il occupe
cette charge jusquen juillet 1861 et ne connatra donc pas lorgue de Cavaille-Coll (1868). Il devient
matre de chapelle de la cathedrale en 1852. Il fait connatre la facture francaise au facteur de Pavie
L. Lingiardi.
Vers 1875, il quitte Marseille pour une raison inconnue, peut-etre sentimentale, pour sinstaller `
a
Cannes. Il retourne `a Genes et Porto Maurizio en 1883 et 1884, do`
u il ecrit au cel`ebre reformateur
de la musique religieuse P. C. Remondini, dont il partage les idees.
A une date inconnue, il revient en France. On le retrouve `a Cannes en 1887, `a lorgue dune eglise
de banlieue. Cest `a Nice `a partir de 1892 quil passe ses derni`eres annees. Il navait pas de famille
proche. Il l`egue sa biblioth`eque et ses partitions `a une personne inconnue, qui les inventorie et essaie
de les vendre. Une grande partie en a ete deposee ulterieurement au Conservatoire de Nice.
Quatre pi`
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LOffertoire en do, lElevation et le Postcommunio sont des manuscrits extraits dun dossier portant la
suscription autographe : Sonate per Organo / Composte dal Mo G. Amadeo. Les deux titres en francais
ainsi quune indication hh hautbois ii laissent supposer quils ont ete composes en France. Mais les autres
indications suivent la graphie italienne hh obo`e ii , souvenir de lancienne prononciation francaise. Le
manuscrit porte de petites croix entre les portees signifiant sans doute un changement de clavier ou
de registration mais ce nest pas toujours coherent.
Andante Genre Pastorale, tel est le titre dun des deux offertoires manuscrits reunis dans un dossier
portant la suscription : Hommage `a mon professeur G. Rossini / Deux offertoires / par le Mo G.
Amadeo. Tout en francais. Les indications de registration indiquent que la pi`ece est destinee `
a un
orgue francais, ce qui nexclut pas la possibilite de la jouer sur un orgue italien du XIXe si`ecle.

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N.B. Je remercie MM. J.-R. Cain, H. Pourteau et le Prof. M. Tarrini pour les renseignements quils mont aimablement fournis.

Gaetano Amadeo was born 1824 at Porto Maurizio, a small town in Ligurian Riviera, Italy. He died
in Nice, France Avril, 8th 1893. His reputation resulted into an entry in biographic dictionnaries, such
as Schmidls and Treccanis in Italy and eulogistic obituaries in some French, Italian and German
journals. But he became forgotten. Most of his career took place in Marseille, where he lived for 27
years and founded a school of plain-song, an exceptional undertaking in this time.
He first learns in Lucca with G. Pacini. After 1841 he studies in Bologna with Rossini, who esteems
him highly. He is becomes voted into the famous Accademia filarmonica in Bologna in 1843.
Holding Rossinis written recommendation, he settles in Marseille where he becomes organist of the
St. Joseph church on June, 1st 1848, right after the inauguration of Joseph Callinets organ. He keeps
this duty until July 1861. Accordingly he will not be acquainted with Cavaille-Colls organ (1868).
He becomes choir master in the cathedral in 1852. He makes the Pavian organ builder L. Lingiardi
acquainted with French organ building.
Around 1875 he leaves Marseille for an unknown reason - perhaps sentimental - and settles in Cannes.
He moves back to Genoa and Porto Maurizio in 1883 and 1884, from where he writes to P.C. Remondini, famous sacred-music reformist whose ideas he shared.
At an unknown date he moves back to France. He is found in Cannes in 1887 at the organ of a suburban
church. He spends his last years in Nice. He had no close relatives. He bequeathes his library and
score collection to an unknown person, who writes a catalog and tries to sell them. Most documents
where donated to the Conservatoire of Nice.
Four unpublished pieces. The C-major offertory, Elevation and Postcommunio are manuscripts
from a folder with this handwritten superscription: Sonate per Organo / Composte dal Mo G. Amadeo.
Both French titles and a Hautbois indication are a hint that they were composed in France. But
other indications abide the Italian spelling obo`e, remnant of the ancient French pronunciation.
The manuscript bears small crosses
between both staves, which probably means a keyboard or
registration change, but this sometimes lacks coherence.
Andante Genre Pastorale, is the title of one out of two manuscripts in a folder bearing the French
superscription: Hommage `a mon professeur G. Rossini / Deux offertoires / par le Mo G. Amadeo.
Registration indications prove that the piece is intended for a French organ, which does not precludes
its playing with a 19C Italian organ.