Mabellini, Teodulo (1817–1897)

Italian conductor and composer. He studied at the Istituto Reale Musicale at Florence and produced his first opera there at the age of 19. After further study with Mercadante at Novara, he settled at Florence, became conductor of the Società Filarmonica in 1843 and of the Teatro della Pergola in 1848. He was professor at the Istituto 1860–87.

Works operas Matilda a Toledo (1836), Rolla (1840), Ginevra degli Almieri (1841), Il conte di Lavagna, I Veneziani a Constantinopoli (1844), Maria di Francia (1846), Il venturiero, Baldassare (1852), and Fiammetta (1857); oratorios Eudossio e Paolo (1845) and L'ultimo giorno di Gerusalemme (1857); cantatas La caccia (1839), Il ritorno (1846), Elegiaca, Rafaelle Sanzio, and Lo spirito di Dante (performed 1865); much church music.