Lorenzo Ghielmi

Lorenzo Ghielmi (born September 1, 1959 in Milan , Italy ) is an Italian organist , harpsichordist , conductor and musicologist .

Life

Ahrend organ (1990) in Milan, where Ghielmi is titular organist

Ghielmi studied organ, harpsichord and piano playing and completed his studies at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel with Jean-Claude Zehnder . As a student with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , he devoted himself to Italian organ music.

Ghielmi lectures at the Accademia Internazionale della Musica in Milan , at the Leopold Mozart Center in Augsburg and since 2006 at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He was visiting professor at the Trossingen University of Music and the Lübeck University of Music for a while and gave master classes at the Haarlem Summer Academy in the Netherlands and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg .

Ghielmi is titular organist at the Basilica di San Simpliciano in Milan on the Ahrend organ, which was newly built in 1990/1991 . He was the most important advisor when building the Mascioni organ in the Cathedral of St. Mary in Tokyo .

Ghielmi also appears as a player of the fortepiano . Sometimes he makes music with the viol player Vittorio Ghielmi , his brother. Ghielmi is the founder and director of the ensemble La divina armonia ( The Divine Harmony ). Concert tours have taken him to Europe, Japan and the USA.

Ghielmi has been a jury member at various organ competitions for many years, for example in Bruges , Chartres , Freiberg , Lausanne , Maastricht , Nuremberg , Toulouse and Tokyo.

A sound recording and a book by Ghielmis deal specifically with the organ works by Nicolaus Bruhns . Ghielmi has also published academic studies on various Milanese composers and sheet music by Girolamo Frescobaldi . Further publications concern the organ building of the 16th and 17th centuries and the interpretation of the work of Johann Sebastian Bach . He made particular contributions to the rediscovery and performance of the St. John Passion by Francesco Feo in 2009.

Awards

• Diapason d'or 02/2003 for CD Bruhns Organ Works
• Diapason d'Or 06/2008 for CD Handel Organ Concerts op.4
• Diapason d'Or 06/2009 for CD Bach: The Art of Fugue
• Diapason d'Or 06/2009 for CD Haydn organ concerts
• Diapason d'Or 06/2013 for CD Handel Organ Concerts Vol. II

Publications

Books

• Nicolaus Bruhns. Note sull'interpretazione della musica organistica , 2005.
  • German: Nicolaus Bruhns. For the interpretation of the organ music . Editioni Carrara, Bergamo 2007, ISMN M-2157-4799-3.
• The completion of the unfinished fugue BWV 1080/19 from Johann Sebastian Bach's “Art of Fugue”. A workshop report. In: Pedro Memelsdorff and Thomas Drescher (eds.): Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis , Bd. 34. Werk, Werkstatt, Handwerk - New Approaches to the Material of Early Music. Amadeus, Winterthur 2014, ISBN 978-3-905786-13-2 . Pp. 139-148.

Notes (editorship)

• Paolo Agostini : Preparate corda vestra. Motet for soprano, bass, violin, lute and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013, ISBN 978-88-98342-75-4 .
• Ottavio Catalani: Ave Virgo gratiosa. Motet for alto, tenor, bass and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013, ISBN 978-88-98342-49-5 .
• Alessandro Costantini: Pulchra es anima mea. Motet for two sopranos, tenor and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013, ISBN 978-88-98342-78-5 .
• Girolamo Frescobaldi : Peccavi super numerum arenae maris. Motet for two sopranos, tenor and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013, ISBN 978-88-98342-69-3 .
• Polibio Fumagalli : Sonata for Organ in E minor, opus 290. Carrara, Bergamo 1992, ISMN M-2157-3995-6.
• Carlo Ignazio Monza : Pieces modern pour le clavecin. Editors: Mariangela Donà and Lorenzo Ghielmi. OMI facsimiles, New York City 1986.
• Angelo Maria Piccinini: Gaudebunt labia mei. Motet for two sopranos, bass and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013, ISBN 978-88-98342-79-2 .
• Paolo Quagliati : Amor Iesu dulcissime. Motet for two sopranos, bass and basso continuo. Pian & Forte, 2013. ISBN 978-88-98342-65-5 .

CDs

Solo music

• Johann Sebastian Bach : Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530. At the Ahrend organ in San Simpliciano Milan. Passacaille, 2010.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Concert arrangements for organ. BWV 592-594, 596, 974, 978. On the Ahrend organ in San Simpliciano Milan. Ars Musici, 2010.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Leipzig chorales. At the Ahrend organ in San Simpliciano Milan. Passacaille, 2006.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Organ Works. harmonia mundi, No. 05472 772782, 1992.
• Bach and the Romanticist. ( Bach and the Romantic. ) Organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms . On the Ahrend organ in San Simpliciano Milan and on the Eberhard Friedrich Walcker organ in the Stadtkirche Winterthur . Winter & Winter, 2005.
• Nicolaus Bruhns. All organ works by Nicolaus Bruhns and Arnold Matthias Brunckhorst , as well as two chorale arrangements by Dietrich Buxtehude . At the Ahrend organ in San Simpliciano Milan. Winter & Winter 2002.
• Tintin abulum. Organ music by Arvo Pärt , Buxheimer Orgelbuch , Arnolt Schlick , Hans Kotter , John Redford , Jean de Macque , William Byrd , bells. Winter & Winter 2001.
• Girolamo Frescobaldi : Toccate (Libro II, 1627) - Aria detta la Frescobalda. On Antegnati organ (1554) and Toni Chinnery harpsichord (1989). Nuova Era.
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali I - Messa della Domenica. At the organ of the Chiesa Abbaziale di S. Siato in Piacenza. With Canticum / Christoph Erkens. German Harmonia Mundi, c. 1995.
• Girolamo Frescobaldi: Fiori Musicali II - Messa della Madonna. On organ by Gian Giacomo Antegnati, 1554 in the Church of San Maurizio in Monastero Maggiore, Milan. With Canticum / Christoph Erkens. German Harmonia Mundi, c. 1995.
• A Late Mediaval Mass On The Rysum Organ . Lorenzo Ghielmi, Ensemble Biscantores. Passacaille, 2020.

Chamber music

• Angelo Maria Fiorè : Complete Cello Sonatas. & XVII Century Italian Arias. ( Marc'Antonio Ziani , Carlo Monza , Paolo Magni, Francesco Ballarotti, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo , Bernardo Sabadini.) Elinor Frey (cello), Suzie LeBlanc (soprano), Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord), Estaban La Rotta (theorbo). Passacaille, 2016.
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach : Viol Sonatas and Fantasies. Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba), Gianluca Buratto (bass baritone), Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano after Gottfried Silbermann ). Winter & Winter, 2008.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: The Art of the Fugue. Harpsichord, fortepiano after Gottfried Silbermann. With Marcello Gatti (flute) and Il Suonor Parlante / Vittorio Ghielmi. Winter & Winter, 2008.
• Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord obbligato (BWV 1027–1029), preludes and fugues (BWV 871, 874, 893). Vittorio Ghielmi (viola da gamba by Michel Colichon, Paris 1688), Lorenzo Ghielmi (fortepiano by Andrea Restelli 1996, based on Gottfried Silbermann 1749). Ars Musici.
• Robert Schumann : For my Clara. Frederica Valli and Lorenzo Ghielmi, Fortepiano, La Gaia Scienza . Winter & Winter, 2005.
• Anno 1630. Works by Claudio Monteverdi , Giovanni Battista Fontana , Michelangelo Rossi , Giovanni Maria Trabaci , Dario Castello and Girolamo Frescobaldi. Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ by Costanzo Antegnati 1587, harpsichord by Tony Chinnery 1989 after Grimaldi 1697). With Enrico Onofri (violin, vocals) and Margret Köll (harp). Winter & Winter, 2003.

Orchestral works

• Francesco Feo: Passio secundum Joannem. ( St. John Passion. ) La Divina Armonia, Lorenzo Ghielmi (continuo and direction). Passacaille, 2009. (World premiere)
• Georg Friedrich Händel : Organ Concerts opus IV. La Divina Armonia, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ and direction). Passacaille, 2007.
• Georg Friedrich Handel: Organ Concerts, Vol. 2. Paulo Grazzi (oboe), La Divina Armonia, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ and direction). Passacaille, 2012.
• Joseph Haydn : Organ Concerts H18 No. 23 & 10, Violin Concerto H7a: 4, Concerto for Violin and Organ H18: 6. Stefano Barnesch (violin), La Divina Armonia, Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ and direction). Passacaille, 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Disposition of the Ahrend organ in the Basilica di San Simpliciano ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 5, 2014 
2. ↑ Lorenzo Ghielmi: The Passio secundum Joannem by Francesco Feo: A newly discovered masterpiece of the Italian Baroque. Program of the performance on March 29, 2011 in Basel, pp. 4–5. (PDF file, 0.7 MB.) Retrieved on February 5, 2016 ( Memento of March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Book description and foreword by the author at the publisher. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
4. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
5. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
6. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
7. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
8. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
9. ^ Description on the publisher's website, accessed on April 9, 2013.
10. ↑ Michael Wersin: Review in the Rondo music magazine on October 16, 2009, accessed on August 28, 2012.
11. ↑ Lorenzo Ghielmi: Bach and the Romantic. Introductory text at the label. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
12. ↑ Lorenzo Ghielmi: Introductory text to the CD . Retrieved from the label on November 5, 2014.
13. ↑ Lorenzo Ghielmi: Introductory text to the CD . Retrieved from the label on August 28, 2012.
14. ^ Peter Webb: Review at musicweb-international.com , accessed on August 28, 2012.
15. ↑ Track list with audio samples ( memento of the original from June 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the label's website, accessed June 7, 2017. 
16. ↑ Uwe Schweikert: Review in Partituren 16/2008, accessed on August 28, 2012.
17. ↑ Luis Gago: Bach and the art of the fugue. Introductory text on the label, accessed on August 28, 2012.
18. ↑ Michael Kube: The Art of Sound: Vittorio and Lorenzo Ghielmi with Bach's "Art of Fugue". Review April 1, 2009 in NMZ Online , accessed August 28, 2012.
19. ↑ Intensity in melody and expression. Review in Die neue Platte on Deutschlandfunk on April 2, 2010, accessed on August 28, 2012.
20. ↑ Robert Strobl: CD review  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , quoted from Toccata - Alte Musik aktuell , March 2008. Retrieved from the label on August 28, 2012.  
21. ↑ Description of contents ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from the CD label's website, accessed October 12, 2012. 
22. ↑ Gerhard Pätzig: Nothing new? ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Klassik heute , February 2009. Retrieved from the label on August 28, 2012. 

Web links

• Works by and about Lorenzo Ghielmi in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
• Lorenzo Ghielmi at Sonus - Agency for Early Music
• Lorenzo Ghielmi plays Bach. Concert recording April 2009, Ste-Madeleine church, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines (organ: Joseph Callinet , 1849)
• Ghielmi's Ensemble La Divina Armonia at Sonus - Agency for Early Music