Giorgio Federico Ghedini has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 6 July 2024. Songs played include Divertimento Contrappuntistico (1940).

Ghedini studied organ, piano and composition in his native Turin, then graduated in composition in Bologna under Marco Enrico Bossi in 1911. He worked as conductor for a certain time, then he gave up to devote himself to teaching. He worked as teacher of composition in Turin (1918-1937), in Parma (1937-1941), finally in Milan, where he directed the local Conservatory (1951-1962). Among his pupils the most eminent were Marcello and Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Niccolò Castiglioni, Carlo Pinelli, Fiorenzo Carpi. He died in Nervi, nearby Genua in 1965.

The composer was a deep lover of ancient music, in fact he transcribed many works of such composers as Girolamo Frescobaldi Claudio Monteverdi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli. Ghedini's works are often inspired to music of Renaissance and baroque Era, but combined with a very personal language which mixes up ancient and modern styles. Among his masterworks a "Concerto for orchestra" (in memory of Guido Cantelli), two violin concertos "Il Belprato" and "Concentus Basiliensis", a concerto for two cellos "L'Olmeneta" and "Musica Notturna" (Night Music). Ghedini's most celebrated concert-piece is "Concerto dell'Albatro" (Albatross Concerto) for violin, cello, piano, narrator and orchestra, which includes fragments from Hermann Melville's Moby Dick) in its final movement. He wrote a large number of chamber, vocal and choral works.