Luigi Borgato

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Luigi Borgato

Luigi Borgato (born February 21, 1963 in Gallarate ) is an Italian piano maker and manufacturer of concert grand pianos .

Life

Borgato presented its first concert grand piano in 1991, at the age of 28, at the European Congress “Europiano”. The grand pianos he built have four-course stringing in the treble (the upper 44 notes) instead of the usual three-course string. Several patents for piano making technology are registered in his name. a. via a newly designed sprue.

Borgato has been invited to speak at various Italian and international courses on piano building and technology. As a piano tuner, he works on recordings by well-known pianists, including a. by Radu Lupu , András Schiff , Vladimir Ashkenazy , Rosalyn Tureck , Lazar Berman and Maria João Pires . Borgato now lives in Lonigo .

The Doppio Borgato

Doppio Borgato
Doppio Borgato

In 2000, Borgato applied for a patent for a pedal piano , which he called Doppio Borgato ("Double Borgato"). It consists of two independent parts, a normal concert grand piano and a pure pedal part underneath it with 37 pedal keys (tone range subcontra-A to a 0 ). Several contemporary composers have already submitted works for this grand piano. a. Ennio Morricone ( Quarto Studio Bis , 2011), Andrea Morricone ( Omaggio a JSB , 2011), Franco Oppo ( Freu dich sehr o Meine Seele , 2000), Charlemagne Palestine ( Compositions for pedal piano , 2005) and Jean Guillou ( Epitases , 2001 ).

literature

  • Larry E. Ashley: Pierce Piano Atlas. 12th edition, Larry E. Ashley Publisher, Albuquerque NM USA, 2008. p. 58.
  • Géreard Gefen: Piano. Editions du Chêne - Hachette Livre, 2002. pp. 59, 166, 170, 180.
  • Atanasio Cecchini: Piano Dream. History of the Piano. Mosè Editions, 2007. pp. 170-171.
  • Dario Miozzi, in Musica, Rivista di cultura musicale e discografica. Zecchini Editions, December 2010 - January 2011. pp. 54, 59y-60.
  • Alessandro Beltrami: Avvenire. August 15, 2010.
  • Franco Pepe, in: AreaArte , summer 2010.
  • Luca Segalla, in: Musica, Rivista di cultura musicale e discografica. Zecchini Editions, March 2011. p. 28.

Web links

Commons : Luigi Borgato  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Günther Weingärtner, Europiano , April – June 1992 pp. 53–56.
  2. ↑ Le Progrès , 6 May 1996.
  3. ↑ Alessandro Cannavò, Amadeus , April 1997, pp. 52-54.
  4. ^ Il Giornale di Vicenza, November 19, 2003.
  5. ↑ Brian T.Majeski: The Music Trades. November 2000, p. 86.
  6. ^ Pianist Magazine , April May 2006 UK
  7. ↑ Honka Verdurmen, Piano Wereld , Holland, August-September 2005.
personal data
SURNAME Borgato, Luigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian piano maker
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Gall rate