Tagliavini, Luigi Ferdinando
Tagliavini, Luigi Ferdinando
Tagliavini, Luigi Ferdinando, distinguished Italian organist, harpsichordist, and musicologist; b. Bologna, Oct. 7, 1929. He studied organ at the Bologna Cons, and with Marcel Dupré at the Paris Cons. (1947-52); also studied at the Univ. of Padua, receiving his Ph.D. there in 1951 with the diss. Studi sui testi delle cantate sacre J.S. Bach (publ, in Padua, 1956). He taught organ at the G.B. Martini Cons, in Bologna (1952-54); also was head of its library (1953-60); concurrently he served as a prof, of organ at the Monteverdi Cons, in Bolzano (1954-64); from 1964 he was on the faculty of the Parma Cons. In 1959 he joined the staff of the Univ. of Bologna; from 1965 he taught music history at the Univ. of Fribourg. With R. Lunelli, he founded the journal L’organo in 1960; also served as ed. of Monumenti di Musica Italiana. He is an authority on organ restoration. With O. Mischiati, he ed.Un anonimo trattato francese di arte organaria del sec. XVIII (Bologna, 1974).
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