LORENZO FRIGNANI
THE COLLECTION
Lorenzo Frignani, one of the most prestigious Italian luthiers (he builds both bowed instruments and concert guitars) and president of the "Associazione Liutaria Italiana", has a large number of historical, rare and precious instruments in his personal collection. For this exhibition Lorenzo Frignani, who took over the collection of 20th century guitars by maestro Angelo Gilardino (which will be the subject of an exhibition that will be set up at the Leone Museum in Vercelli in 2024), will propose some guitars built in Turin by Carlo and Gaetano Guadagnini and Denis Nicolao, in Naples by Gennaro and Giovan Battista Fabricatore, by Gaetano De Grado and Pasquale Vinaccia. Together with instruments by the Milanese Giacomo Rivolta, the Ferrarese Giuseppe Marconcini and the Bolognese Filippo Guarmandi, they will offer a comprehensive representation of the excellent violin-making art expressed in Italy between the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century.
GIACOMO ZUCCONI
Vergato. Bologna 1811
Cartouche:
“Giacomo Zucconi – Di Vergato – 1811” Vibrating string length: mm. 634
GIACOMO RIVOLTA
Milan 1807
Cartouche:
“Giacomo Rivolta made - In the Contrada della Lupa - at n. 3257 Milan 1807”
Vibrating rope length: mm. 642
GAETANO GUADAGNINI
Turin 1847 “terzina”.
Cartouche:
“Gaetano Guadagnini made – in Turin in the year 1847 – in Piazza S. Carlo”
Vibrating string length: mm. 580
GENNARO FABRICATO
Naples 1822
Cartouche:
“Gennaro Fabricatore - Year 1822 Naples - Strada S, Giacomo N. 42”
Vibrating rope length: mm. 642
GIOVAN BATTISTA FABRICANTE Naples 1794
Cartouche:
“Thursday: Battista Fabricatore - Naples Year 1794 in SM - dell'Ajuto. No. 32”
Vibrating rope length: mm. 632
CONFERENCES and MASTER CLASSES
THE CONCERTS
The project will be accompanied by an important concert series entrusted to the talent of some of the most successful Italian concert players.
All of them had the good fortune to know Maestro Angelo Gilardino; for some he has represented a fundamental teacher in their artistic career and they have had the privilege of extending the didactic and professional relationship to a relationship of deep esteem and friendship.
All of them have masterfully performed compositions by the master of which they were often the direct dedicatees, of which they have given the absolute "premiere" and recorded interpretations of great quality.