Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini

Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini (born 7 October 1929 in Bologna), is an Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.

Biography

He has conducted studies in music classes organ, piano and composition with Riccardo Nielsen to Conservatory of Bologna and Paris Conservatory (in the class of Marcel Dupré). Graduating to University of Padova in 1951 with a dissertation on the texts of the sacred cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach, taught complementary organ at the Conservatory of Bologna (where he also held the position librarian) and later at the Monteverdi Conservatory of Bolzano, first as a lecturer and later as professor of organ.

Professor of music history at the University of Freiburg (Switzerland) where the 1971 has become commonplace and director of the Institute of Musicology. Visiting professor at various universities in the U.S., is also active as a concert organist in Italy and abroad. He holds, with Liuwe Tamminga, the organs of the Basilica of San Petronio to Bologna. Founder with Renato Lunelli of the magazine "The Organ", has taught regularly in the summer courses of Haarlem and of course '"Academy of Organ Music" by Pistoia.

With Marie-Claire Alain, Anton Heiller and Gustav Leonhardt, has greatly contributed to the rediscovery and affirmation of the Baroque organ and harpsichord performance practice. Together with Oscar Mischiati, his colleague and friend, was, after Renato Lunelli, the second exponent of Orgelbewegung in Italy, a movement that is being pursued the restoration and enhancement of ancient organs according to historical criteria. Fundamental point of reference in Italian organology, he led some of the restorations constitute a genuine watershed in the national landscape organ, in particular "Lorenzo da Prato" and "Baldassarre Malamini" of Basilica San Petronio delivered two tools are absolutely unique and invaluable.

Among the most successful concert organist of his generation, he has played in the most important Italian and European organs and is still engaged in the concert. He has made numerous recordings received several awards including the "Prize of the Italian discography", the "Schallplattenpreis Phono-Akademie der Deutschen," the distinction "Choc de la musique" for the CD made with Liuwe Tamminga organs of San Petronio and dedicated to Andrea Gabrieli and Giovanni Gabrieli, the "Premio Antonio Vivaldi" and the "Premio Massimo Mila".

Among other honors are reminiscent of the Tiroler Adler gold conferred to Innsbruck in 1982, the honorary doctorate in music of University of Edinburgh and the honorary title of Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in London in 1996, the honorary degree from the University of Bologna in the disciplines of arts, music and entertainment in the 1999, and a doctorate honoris causa in sacred music of Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome in 2011.

He is the author of numerous papers in musicology, is a member of National Academy of Santa Cecilia and has edited critical editions of the works of Girolamo Frescobaldi, Domenico Zipoli, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It has an almost unique collection of musical instruments, which collects about 70 between harpsichords, clavichords, spinets, piano, organs, but also wind instruments and automated tools ranging from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. This heritage was recently donated to the Foundation CARISBO and was collected in the Church complex of San Colombano, Bologna. It boasts of the most important instruments including Alexander Trasuntino, Giovanni Battista Giusti, Fabio da Bologna and Giovanni Ferrini (which in 1746 built an instrument with two manuals, unique, bringing together harpsichord and piano).

Discography

• 1991 - Andrea e Giovanni Gabrieli, Gli organi della Basilica di San Petronio, con Liuwe Tamminga (Tactus)
• 1991 - Maestri Padani e Fiamminghi. Gli organi storici della Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna, con Liuwe Tamminga (Tactus)
• 1993 - Giuseppe Gherardeschi, Messa per organo, con la Corale S. Michele Arcangelo di Corsanico (Fonè)
• 1996 - Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and his collection of harpsichords (Ermitage)
• 2004 - L'organo Gaetano Callido (La Bottega Discantica)

Compositions

Passacaglia su un tema di Hindemith (1953)

Publications

Among his essays have been published

• Studi sui testi delle cantate sacre di J. S. Bach, Padova-Kassel, 1956
• La situazione degli antichi organi in Italia: problemi di censimento e di tutela, in collaborazione con Oscar Mischiati (in "L'organo" 1969)
• Note introduttive alla storia del temperamento in Italia (in "L'organo" 1980)
• J. S. Bach Musik in Italien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (in AA.VV., Bachiana et alia musicologica: Festschrift A. Dürr, Kassel, 1983)

Bibliography

• Studi sui testi della cantate sacre di J. S. Bach, Padova-Kassel 1956
• La situazione degli antichi organi in Italia: problemi di censimento e di tutela, in collaborazione con Oscar Mischiati (in "L'organo" 1969)
• Note introduttive alla storia del temperamento in Italia (in "L'organo" 1980)
• J.S.Bach Musik in Italien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert (in AA.VV., Bachiana et alia musicologica: Festschrift A. Dürr, Kassel, 1983)
• Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini in "Dizionario Enciclopedico Universale della Musica e dei Musicisti", Torino 1988
• E. Darbellay, Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini in "The New Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians", Londra 1980
• biografia dettagliata e bibliografia di Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini