Giorgio Federico Ghedini

Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 1892 – 25 March 1965) was an Italian composer.

In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on Billy Budd by Herman Melville.

Among his pupils, the most eminent were Marcello and Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Guido Cantelli, Niccolò Castiglioni, Carlo Pinelli, and Fiorenzo Carpi.

Ghedini's most celebrated concert piece is Concerto dell'Albatro (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick in its final movement.

He also wrote a one-act opera based on Melville's Billy Budd, which was first performed in 1949.