Antonino Gandolfo Brancaleone

Back in Catania, after this training period, he composed sacred and chamber music.

[1] He composed the oratory La disfatta degli Assiri (The Assyrian Defeat)(1850) and Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Delivered) (1852), both performed in Catania during the August Saint Agatha festivities.

The same opera was performed in Naples at the Teatro di San Carlo in 1854 with enthusiastic success, thanks also to the outstanding cast of singers, which included among others the tenor Emilio Pancani and soprano Carlotta Carrozzi Zucchi.

Among from period Antonino's works mention should be made for the Marcia Funebre (Funeral March), written in occasion of the Vincenzo Bellini's spoils repatriation from Paris (1876), as well as the Inaugurazione symphony (Opening symphony), written in occasion of the scientist patriot Vincenzo Tedeschi's celebration.

[3] Inventory of manuscripts in Antonino Gandolfo fund at the Bellini Musical Institute in Catania (Sicily, Italy)