Gustavo Carulli

Born at Livorno, he was the son of guitarist, singer[2] and composer Ferdinando Carulli and the French Marie-Josephine Boyer. Gustavo learned the guitar and singing from his father, Ferdinando who, besides his well-known guitar works (such as his Méthode complette pour guitarre, op. 27, composed expressly for the instruction of his son[3]), also published and arranged works for singers[4] [5] [6] and even a method of singing[7] and accompaniment of singing[8] .[9]

Young Gustavo went to Paris with his father, where he studied piano under the polish Mirecki, harmony with Nicolo Isouard and composition with Ferdinando Paer.[10]

In 1825 his opera I tre mariti was performed in La Scala in Milan.[11] [12] [13]

In 1838 Gustavo Carulli published his Méthode de chant dedicated to Gilbert Duprez.[14][15][16][17] Numerous of the teaching methods therein, were incorporated into Solfège des solfèges where he collaborated with Henri Lemoine; later Adolphe-Léopold Danhauser augmented Solfège des solfèges with additional lessons.[18][19]

Carulli is said to also have been fluent in an earlier style "the galant phraseology of the 1780s".[20]

He gave singing classes in his dwelling Rue de Provence 63 bis.,[21][22] living only 2 numbers away from Franz Liszt.[23]

In 1847, two of Gustavo Carulli's songs were awarded prices in a Concours des chants populaires.[24][25]

Later he moved to Boulogne-sur-Mer, where he remained and died. There one of his students was Alexandre Guilmant whom he taught harmony, counterpoint and fugue.

See External links below, for works referenced in catalogues.

• Methode pour la guitare, Op. 4[26]
• Quadrille, sur les motifs de L'Opera La Semiramide (Musique de G. Rossini, Arrangee pour le Piano-Forte, par Gustave Carulli)
• Quadrilles, from the Opera of "La Gazza Ladra" by Rossini, arranged for the piano-forte by Gustave Carulli
• Six Sonatines très-faciles pour le Pianoforte, composée par G. Carulli. Leipzig, Hofmeister[27]
• Tre cantibile per piano-forte [28]
• Repertorio per gli allievi, ossia raccolta di diversi motivi del celebre M Mayer[29]
• Pot-pourri per Pian-forte e Violino estratt della Semiramide [30]
• "Paganini" Trois airs variés pour le Violon, pour étre executes sur la quatrieme corde seulement, avec accompagnement de Piano, par Gustave Carulli[31]
• Rondo brilliant, précédé d'un andante pour le piano[32]
• Méthode du Chant, dediée à Duprez par G. Carulli, professeur du Chant[14][15][16][17]
• Quinze vocalises a deux voix, faisant suite a la Methode[33]
• Solfège des solfèges[18][19]
• Les Feux Follets, Album de Chant avec accompagnement de Piano, pour 1842, Paroles de MM. Ancouet et E. Barateau, Musique de Gustave Carulli, contenant cinq Romances et cinq nocturnes[34][35]
• Album de 1839; Paroles de Mme Tastu, MM. Aucoult et Barateau, Musique de Gustave Carulli [36]
• Mélodies, pour trois voix égales [37][38]
• Melodies referenced in Catalogue général des livres, ouvrages périodiques, journaux et morceaux de musique de la Bibliothèque Catholique de Termonde
• Etoile chérie, romance, musique de Gustave Carulli, paroles de Emile Barateau[39]
• O mon Dieu, si ton bon plaisir, paroles de Corneille[25]
• Pour qui rêve d'Amour, paroles de Barateau[40]
• Si vous ne m'aimez plus! musique de G. Carulli, paroles de Em. Barateau[39]
• Marie "Charle est a moi" [41][42]
• Huit melodies pour trois voix egales, paroles de M. Alph. de Lamartine et autres auteurs[43]
• Ding-Dong
• Tre canzonette, paroli di diversi autori, con accompagnamento di piano-forte[44]
• G. Carulli: Leichte und gefällige Singübungen in Arien, Romanzen und Duetten von Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini u.s.w.[45]

• Biography
  • Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie; Suppl. v.1. Fétis, François-Joseph
  • Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique
  • Cyclopedia of music and musicians. Ed. by John Denison
  • I maestri di musica italiani del secolo xix: notizie biografiche, by Giovanni Masutto
  • The guitar and mandolin : biographies of celebrated players and composers for these instruments by Bone, Philip James
• ‘Il faut savoir l’Italien pour déchiffrer une romance française’: Italian Presence in the French Romance 1800 – 1850 by Helen Louise Macfarlane Thesis, Referencing Gustavo Carulli

• Works referenced in catalogues
  • WorldCat
  • Internet Culturale (Italy)
  • Bibliothèque nationale de France (alternative)