Tamburini (organ builder)

Pontificia Fabbrica d'organi Comm. Giovanni Tamburini
legal form	family business
founding	1891
resolution	1996
Seat	Crema
Branch	Organ building

Pontificia Fabbrica d'organi Comm. Giovanni Tamburini was one of the most famous Italian organ builders . The company was founded in 1893 by Giovanni Tamburini and dissolved in 1996.

history

The Tamburini family built some of the largest and most important organs in Italy. Her masterpiece is the organ in the cathedral of Messina (1938) with five manuals. She also built the organ in the Milan Cathedral (1937–1938) with five manuals, commissioned by Benito Mussolini and the organ builder Mascioni from Cuvio . It was installed during the tenure of the cathedral music director Marziano Perosi .

After the death of the founder Giovanni Tamburini, the company was managed by his daughter Cecilia and his son-in-law Umberto Anselmi. It was then headed by their son Franco Anselmi Tamburin, who died in 2001.

After the company went bankrupt in 1996, the tradition is continued by two great-grandchildren:

• Pontificia Fabbrica d'organi Comm. Giovanni Tamburini by Saverio Anselmi Tamburini, son of Franco. Company headquarters in Crema (CR)
• Claudio Anselmi Tamburini . Headquarters in Asciano (SI)

List of works

opus	year	location	church	Manuals	register	image
9	1898	Santa Cristina in Quinto di Treviso	Santa Cristina	II / P	22nd
21st	1903	Vigonovo di Fontanafredda ( Pordenone )	Santa Maria Assunta	II / P	29
16	1905	Piacenza	Duomo di Piacenza	II / P	30th
	1906	Montodine	Santa Maria Maddalena	II / P	19th
43	1911	Milan	Sant'Alessandro in Zebedia	II / P	45
51	19th	Treviso	Sant'Agnese	II / P	11
59	1913	Mogliano Veneto	Santa Maria Assunta	II / P	26th
65	1914	Pisa	Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri	III / P	80
66	1915	Treviso	Duomo di Treviso	III / P	72
92	1925	La Spezia	Santuario di Nostra Signora della Salute	II / P	22nd
119	1928	Rome	Santi Ambrogio e Carlo	III / P	39
	1929	Genazzano (Rome)	Santuario Madre del Buon Consiglio	II / P	29
134	1931	Florence	Santa Croce	IV / P	98
142	1932	Spoleto	Duomo di Spoleto	II / P	26th
148	1933	Lima - Peru	Basilica di Maria Ausiliatrice	II / P	34
154	1934	Rome	Sant 'Eusebio	II / P	28
191	1938	Milan	Milan Cathedral	V / P	194
217	1941	Milan	Milan Cathedral	II / P	16
227	1941	Turin	Mary Help Basilica	III / P	67
241	1942	Sansepolcro	Duomo di Sansepolcro	II / P	28
246	1942	Rome	Santa Prassede	II / P	26th
268	1948	Messina	Messina Cathedral	V / P	170
291	1950	Naples	Basilica di San Pietro ad Aram	II / P	29
300	1951	Chiusi della Verna	Santuario della Verna	IV / P	91
337	1953	Livorno	Santi Pietro e Paolo	II / P	10
328	1954	Messina	Chiesa del Carmine	II / P	20th
334	1954	Salerno	Salerno Cathedral	III / P	53
372	1957	Milan	Sant'Angelo	IV / P	76
394	1959	Rome	Basilica di San Giovanni Bosco	III / P	70
406	1959	Monza	Santa Maria delle Grazie	II / P	20th
?	1960	Cava de 'Tirreni	Santuario francescano di San Francesco e Sant'Antonio	III / P	70
447	1962	Rome	Santa Maria Portae Paradisi	II / P	18th
463	1962	Rome	St. Peter's Basilica	IV / P	76
465	1963	Arezzo	Santa Maria della Pieve	III / P	53
497	1964	Montebelluna	Duomo di Montebelluna	III / P	34
499	1964	Naples	Basilica dell'Incoronata Madre del Buon Consiglio	III / P	45
520	1966	Siena	Siena Cathedral	IV / P	72
?	1966	Sora	Duomo	II / P	16
531	1966	Collevalenza	Santuario dell'Amore Misericordioso	III / P	55
533	1966	Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto	Basilica Minore di San Sebastiano	III / P	41
544	1968	Bologna	Basilica di Santa Maria dei Servi	III / P	60
579	1969	Jerusalem	Holy Sepulcher	II / P	28
637	1970	Maerne	San Pietro	II / P	32
595	1971	Milan	Milan Cathedral	II / P	17th
638	1972	Venice	St. Mark's Basilica	II / P	34
645	1972	Brescia	Santa Maria della Pace	III / P	64
649	1972	Sassari	Basilica del Sacro Cuore	III / P	39
345	1975	Avezzano	Cattedrale di Avezzano	II / P	28
879	1990	Cappella di Scorzè	San Giovanni Battista	II / P	18th

More organs

• Basilica-Santuario di Sant'Antonio di Padova ad Afragola (1928–1929)
• Duomo di Sant'Angelo in Vado a Sant'Angelo in Vado (1933)
• Liceo Musicale "Giuseppe Verdi" di Turin (1933)
• Santa Croce in Gerusalemme Rome (1950)
• Auditorium Pio XII di Rome (1951)
• Rai di Torino Auditorium (1953)
• Scuola Nazionale di Musica di Rio de Janeiro (1954)
• Collegio Santa Rosa a Niterói ( Brazil ) (1956)
• Auditorium Nazionale di Mexico City (1959)
• Rai di Napoli Auditorium (1963)
• Duomo di Cava de 'Tirreni (1964)
• Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome (1966)
• Teatro Comunale di São Paulo (Brazil) (1968)
• Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini, Bologna (1971)
• Chiesa del Cuore Immacolato della Vergine Maria di Albano Laziale (1973)
• Conservatorio Statale di Musica di Piacenza (1975)

Restorations

The company also restored historic organs such as the historic organ in the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna by Lorenzo da Prato and Baldassarre Malamini, in the Tempio Civico della Beata Vergine Incoronata in Lodi by Giacomo da Prato, and Cappella Ducale di San Liborio a Colorno by Serassi , Superga in Turin by Concone and in the Basilica di Sant'Alessandro in Colonna in Bergamo .

Family tree of the Tamburini family

• Giovanni (1857–1942, company founder)
• Cecilia (1894-1964)
  • Franco Anselmi-Tamburini (1920–2001)
    • Cecilia (* 1953)
    • Saverio (born 1958)
      • Gaia (* 1996)
      • Giovanni (* 1999)
  • Luciano Anselmi-Tamburini (1921–1999)
    • Claudio (* 1949)
      • Marcello (* 1975)
        • Cecilia (* 2001)
        • Matteo (* 2002)
        • Tommaso (* 2004)
        • Maria (* 2008)
        • Caterina (* 2009)
        • Stefano (* 2012)
        • Rebecca (* 2015)
    • Umberto (1958)
• Maria (1895-?)
• Lucia (1903-1971)

Individual references / comments

1. ↑ 2014 rebuilt by Zanien
2. ↑ Claudio Simonato: Il Tamburini. Storia dell'organo nell'Arcipretale di Mogliano Veneto . Marcaprint 2013.
3. ↑ In 2004 it was converted into the Natività della Beata Vergine Maria church in Trebaseleghe .
4. ↑ Disposizioni foniche di organi a canne / Europa / Italia / Liguria / Provincia della Spezia / La Spezia / La Spezia - Chiesa di Nostra Signora della Salute - Wikibooks, manuali e libri di testo liberi. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Together with the organ builder Mascioni
6. ↑ The organ was restored and expanded in the early 1980s.
7. ↑ in the crypt
8. ^ Transferred to the Church of Santa Maria Nascente in Milan
9. ^ Replaced in 1982 by a Rieger organ
10. ^ Choir organ, connected to the main organ

See also

• Cecilianism

Web links

• Website by Claudio Anselmi Tamburini .
• Website by Saverio Anselmi Tamburini .