Italian violinist, composer and scholar. Federico Consolo ('Yehiel Nahmani Sefaradi') was born in 1841 in Ancona, Italy. He studied violin and had a career as a violinist, until a nerve injury ended his career. After the injury he devoted himself to composition and research. He published Sefer Shirei Yisrael – Libro dei Canti d'Israele (1892), a work containing traditional tunes of the Sephardic Jews of Italy.
Source: Encyclopedia Judaica.
