(ANSA) – BOLOGNA, 13 DEC – Although in the year of her 40th anniversary, 2021, the Italian Fazioli triumphed with her grand piano at the Chopin Competition in Warsaw (the most prestigious piano competition in the world won by Canadian Bruce Liu), for music lovers and concert hall goers the synonym of piano remains Steinway & Son: this is demonstrated by a recent study according to which 98% of concert players choose to play an instrument of the famous house founded in 1853 in New York from a German immigrant. Yet the piano is an Italian instrument, invented in Florence around 1700 by the Paduan harpsichord maker Bartolomeo Cristofori, and since then it has had a huge impact on the history of music over the last three centuries, becoming one of the most popular and loved musical instruments. This and much more is collected in the large volume, about 650 pages, ‘The piano in Italy’, edited by the musicologist Giovanni Paolo Di Stefano, presented at the Museum of San Colombano – Tagliavini Collection in Bologna.
The result of a twenty-year research project, in which the publishing house that was to carry it out went bankrupt and its creator Marco Di Pasquale died, the work involved some of the leading experts on the subject (from Matteo Messori to Patrizio Barbieri, from Renato Meucci to Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini to Anna Zareba, to name a few) and culminated in an international conference that was held in 2019 in the Bologna museum in Via Parigi.
The text analyzes the role that manufacturing activities, linked to the manufacture of the piano, have played in the Italian culture and economy between the years following the invention of the instrument and the contemporary age. Not limiting himself to the reconstruction of the historical events that determined the diffusion of the instrument, but deepening the technological aspects of a very large number of historical Italian-made pianos, of which specimens are preserved in museums and collections all over the world (one of the oldest, made in Florence in 1746 by Giovanni Ferrini, is located in the Museum of San Colombano). (HANDLE).
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