Giuseppe Pelitti

Giuseppe Pelitti the Elder (born July 31, 1811 in Varese , Kingdom of Italy , † April 24, 1865 in Milan , Kingdom of Italy ) was an Italian brass instrument maker .

Life

Giuseppe Pelitti was one of nine children of the instrument maker Giovanni Pelitti and his wife Caterina Crespi. When his brother Paolo went to Genoa in 1828 to set up a workshop there, Giuseppe took over his father's company.

Pelitti became known as the inventor of new wind instruments from 1835. In 1835 he designed the "Bombardino", a tenor horn that was used for a long time , especially in the Italian bandas . Later he developed a contrabassoon from brass , whose sound is described as 1845 much stronger compared to a conventional contrabassoon. In 1845 he built the “Pelittone” named after himself, a deep instrument tuned in Bb similar to today's tuba , which was patented in Austria in 1847 . Four years later the "Pelittone generale" was completed, an even larger drilled instrument that, according to a report from 1881, had established itself in the major German music bands.

Giuseppe Pelitti's son Giuseppe Clemente founded his own instrument making company, which was merged with his father after the death of his father.

Renato Meucci compares Giuseppe Pelitti with the Belgian inventor u. a. des saxophone , Adolphe Sax , and speaks the instruments from his workshop a. a. just as good a reputation as that of Červený .

literature

Renato Meucci: The Pelitti firm: Makers of brass instruments in nineteenth-century Milan . In: Historic Brass Society (Ed.): Historic Brass Society Journal . Volume 6, 1994, pp. 304–333 (English, historicbrass.org [PDF; 6.1 MB ]).

Web links

Instruments by Giuseppe Pelitti (and his son Giuseppe Clemente) in the catalog of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Pelitti. In: treccani.it. Retrieved September 14, 2018 (Italian).
^ Renato Meucci : The Cimbasso - no longer a mystery of the line-up in the Italian orchestra. In: Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Martin Skamletz, Daniel Allenbach (eds.): Romantic brass - a look back into the 19th century. Symposium 1 , Ed. Argus, Schliengen 2015, ISBN 978-3-931264-84-0 , pp. 188–198 ( hkb-interpretation.ch [PDF; 303 kB; accessed on September 17, 2018]).
^ ^A ^b Renato Meucci: Brass Bands and the Brass Instrument Industry in the 19th century Milan . In: Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsges.mbH (Hrsg.): Scientific yearbook of the Tiroler Landesmuseen . 2010, ISSN 0379-0231 , p. 101–113 (English, PDF on ZOBODAT ).

personal data
SURNAME	Pelitti, Giuseppe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH	July 31, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH	Varese
DATE OF DEATH	April 24, 1865
Place of death	Milan

[treccani-1] Pelitti. In: treccani.it. Retrieved September 14, 2018 (Italian).

[2] Renato Meucci : The Cimbasso - no longer a mystery of the line-up in the Italian orchestra. In: Claudio Bacciagaluppi, Martin Skamletz, Daniel Allenbach (eds.): Romantic brass - a look back into the 19th century. Symposium 1 , Ed. Argus, Schliengen 2015, ISBN 978-3-931264-84-0 , pp. 188–198 ( hkb-interpretation.ch [PDF; 303 kB; accessed on September 17, 2018]).

[meucci-3] A ^b Renato Meucci: Brass Bands and the Brass Instrument Industry in the 19th century Milan . In: Tiroler Landesmuseen-Betriebsges.mbH (Hrsg.): Scientific yearbook of the Tiroler Landesmuseen . 2010, ISSN 0379-0231 , p. 101–113 (English, PDF on ZOBODAT ).