Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini

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

Life

Tagliavini studied at the conservatories in Bologna and Paris and at the University of Padua. He then taught organ at the conservatories of Bolzano, Parma and Bologna. From 1965 until his retirement in 2000, he was Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.

For his concert career and his record recordings he received in 1972 and 1973 the Premio della discografia italiana 1976 and the record prize of the German Phono Academy. For a recording of works Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli at the historic organ of San Petronio in Bologna, together with the Dutch organist Liuwe Tamminga, he was honored in 1991 by the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice by Antonio Vivaldi Prize. In 1982, he received in Innsbruck Tirol's Eagle Order in gold. In the same year he became a member of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

In addition to his work as performer Tagliavini was nonetheless a musicological writings. As editor, he published works by Frescobaldi, Zipoli, Mozart and others

1996 awarded him the University of Edinburgh, an Honorary Doctorate of Music and the Royal College of Organists made ​​him an honorary member.

Tagliavini has an important collection of historical keyboard instruments, which was documented in John Henry van der Meer monograph Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Clavicembali e spinets dal XVI al XIX secolo (Bologna 1986). Since 2010 she has another public.

Publications (selection)

• Domenico Zipoli: Organ and Harpsichord Works, 2 vols. W. Müller, Heidelberg 1958