was an Italian flutist, composer and teacher, founder of the Milan Flute School.
Giuseppe Rabboni was the first to enrol at the Milan Conservatory in 1808 (he studied flute in the class of oboist and bassoonist Giuseppe Buccinelli) and graduated with flying colours in 1817. He immediately embarked on an amazing concert career in duo with the great clarinettist Ernesto Cavallini. He was first flutist at the Teatro alla Scala and from 1827 became head of the flute class at the Conservatoire, which he opened as his own class. Among his many pupils, Angelo Panzini and the famous Antonio Zamperoni, his successor at La Scala and the Conservatoire, stand out. Giuseppe Verdi himself was enthusiastic about the reduction and arrangement of his opera Il trovatore for flute, violin and piano published by Ricordi in 1854 and dedicated one of the scores autograph to him, which proves the depth and quality of the work of the "Egregio maestro Rabboni", as Verdi himself called him.
