Roberto Regazzi
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) is a notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation in the craft from Otello Bignami
Otello Bignami
-Biography:Otello Bignami - born in Bologna, Italy on August 6, 1914 and died in Bologna on December 1, 1989.The life of Otello Bignami closely resembles the lives of various 19th century violin makers in that he drew much vitality from the farming and craft traditions of his origins...
. Regazzi lives and works in Bologna.
Biography
The debut was at an early age; when he was just 14 years old started to be involved with passion in the construction of musical instruments, at that time mostly classical guitars, under the guidance of Alan Wilcox and Renato Scrollavezza in the mid 1970s.Later, the possibility to become a home pupil of Otello Bignami
Otello Bignami
-Biography:Otello Bignami - born in Bologna, Italy on August 6, 1914 and died in Bologna on December 1, 1989.The life of Otello Bignami closely resembles the lives of various 19th century violin makers in that he drew much vitality from the farming and craft traditions of his origins...
was crucial for his decision to stop the studies at the Bologna University (Physics) to become a professional violin maker.
So even during his apprenticeship the firm could be started at the end of 1979.
Established and well known worldwide for the high quality of his instruments, he has been president of a number of specialized organizations including the European Association of Violin and Bow Makers for a couple of times.
His violins are excellent examples of the true Italianate sound and quite in demand also in the United States, Japan, Germany, Ireland and many other countries.
Just before the advent of the new millennium his production started to be steadily inspired by Guarneri del Gesù, with the achievement of a rich, full and charming sonority.
His work is also inspired by Ansaldo Poggi
Ansaldo Poggi
Ansaldo Poggi was born in Villafontana di Medicina , 9 June 1893 and died in Bologna, 4 September 1984.He demonstrated his talent for the making of stringed instruments at a young age...
and Otello Bignami
Otello Bignami
-Biography:Otello Bignami - born in Bologna, Italy on August 6, 1914 and died in Bologna on December 1, 1989.The life of Otello Bignami closely resembles the lives of various 19th century violin makers in that he drew much vitality from the farming and craft traditions of his origins...
(Augusto Pollastri's
Augusto Pollastri
Augusto Pollastri - was a renowned Italian violin maker, older brother to Gaetano Pollastri....
Bolognese School).
In 2006 the Chamber of Commerce of Bologna conferred on him a special honour for the prestige given to his birth city with his long and successful activity.
Famous performers and musicians put their names on his waiting list or bought and play his instruments, including Boris Belkin
Boris Belkin
-Early years:As a child prodigy began studying the violin at the age of six, and made his first public appearance with Kirill Kondrašin when he was seven...
, Franco Mezzena
Franco Mezzena
Franco Mezzena born in Trento, is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor. He studied with Salvatore Accardo.-Activities:* Guest soloist at concert halls and festivals in Europe, Japan, South America and U.S.A....
, Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter
Anne-Sophie Mutter is a German violinist.- Early life :Mutter was born in Rheinfelden, Germany. She began playing the piano at age five, and shortly afterwards took up the violin, studying with Erna Honigberger, a pupil of Carl Flesch...
, Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci
Ruggiero Ricci is an Italian-American violinist known for performances and recordings of the works of Paganini. He was born in San Bruno, California. Ricci's brother was cellist and his sister Emma played violin with the New York Metropolitan Opera.He is the son of Italian immigrants. His...
, Salvatore Greco
Salvatore Greco (Violinist)
Salvatore Greco is an Italian violinist, leader of the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo, Palermo since 1991.-Biography:He studied in London with Eugene Sarbu , with Paolo Borciani , and for some years in the U.S...
, Giovanni Adamo, Uto Ughi
Uto Ughi
Diodato "Uto" Ughi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1992-1997...
, Franco Gulli, Riccardo Brengola
Riccardo Brengola
Riccardo Brengola was an Italian violinist.Brengola was born in Naples. A child prodigy, he made his first studies with his father, and got his violin diploma in the Casablanca Conservatory at the early age of 11. returning to Italy, he studied violin with Arrigo Serato and orchestral conducting...
, the Quartetto di Venezia, Peter Fisher and many others.
The Regazzi Library is one of the largest collections of books and documentation on the specific subject of musical instruments known worldwide.
He has been on the jury of a number of contests for luthiers, including the 10th International Competition of the Violin Society of America at Carlisle
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The name is traditionally pronounced with emphasis on the second syllable. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2010 census, the borough...
, Pennsylvania (1992), the Freiburg
Freiburg
Freiburg im Breisgau is a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. In the extreme south-west of the country, it straddles the Dreisam river, at the foot of the Schlossberg. Historically, the city has acted as the hub of the Breisgau region on the western edge of the Black Forest in the Upper Rhine Plain...
Baden-Wurttemberg Internationaler Geigenbauwettbewerb Jacobus Stainer (1996), the 5th Baveno
Baveno
Baveno is a town and comune in the province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, part of Piedmont, northern Italy. It is located on the west shore of Lago Maggiore, 13 miles North West of Arona by rail....
Violin Making Competition, the 2nd Concourse in S.M. della neve of Pisogne
Pisogne
Pisogne is a comune of 8046 inhabitants in Val Camonica, province of Brescia, in Lombardy.-Geography:Pisogne is situated at the northern-east tip of Lake Iseo....
and the prestigious 10th Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski
Henryk Wieniawski was a Polish violinist and composer.-Biography:Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lublin, Congress Poland, Russian Empire. His father, Tobiasz Pietruszka, had converted to Catholicism. His talent for playing the violin was recognized early, and in 1843 he entered the Paris...
Violin-Making Competition, the oldest event of this kind in the world.
He also made several classical concert guitars starting in the 1970s, up to the end of the 1980s, mostly made out of top selected quality rosewoods.
Every instrument is labelled and branded with iron from the beginning of his artistic career
He has written books, lectured extensively around the world and organized cultural events relating to his art and profession.
Regazzi is the first luthier from Bologna having been chosen as an official testimonial for the Craft of Traditional Musical Instrument Making at the Bologna Shanghai 2010 Expo.
Publications
- In occasione del 250º anniversario della morte di Antonio Stradivari per onorare la figura di Giuseppe Fiorini, Bazzano, 1987
- In remembrance of Ansaldo Poggi, Bologna, Florenus 1994
- The Complete Luthier's Library, Bologna, Florenus 1990
- The Manuscript on Violin Making by G.A. Marchi - Bologna 1786, Bologna, Arnaldo Forni 1986
Publications - Contributions
- A Life of Artistry - Sketches of Otello Bignami violin maker in Bologna 1914–1989, with Roberto Verti, Adriano Cavicchi and Giovanna Benzi, Bologna, Florenus 1991
- Otello Bignami Liutaio in Bologna - Violinmaker in Bologna, with Wilma e William Bignami, Mariarosa Pollastri, Bruno Stefanini, Loretta Ghelfi and Paola Malaguti, Cremona and Bologna 1998 (Turris), 2005, ISBN 88-7929-160-2
- Classic Violin-making in Piedmonte, Bologna, Florenus 1991
- Lutherie in Bologna: Roots & Success, with Sandro Pasqual, Bologna, Florenus 1998
- The Magic of Wood, interviewed by Linda Johnston, with a.o.Rudolf KoelmanRudolf KoelmanRudolf Koelman is a Dutch violinist born in Amsterdam in 1959 and is currently a professor at the "Zürcher Hochschule der Künste" in Switzerland.-Biography:...
, Salvatore GrecoSalvatore Greco (Violinist)Salvatore Greco is an Italian violinist, leader of the Orchestra of Teatro Massimo, Palermo since 1991.-Biography:He studied in London with Eugene Sarbu , with Paolo Borciani , and for some years in the U.S...
, Joaquín Palomares, etc.. Genova, Dynamic 2005, edited also with a Japanese translation. - The Sound of Bologna, Bolognese Violin Making between the 1800s and 1900s - Events dedicated to Raffaele Fiorini and the Violin Making Tradition of the City. Bologna, Florenus 1991 Bologna, December 7–22, 2002, Art and History Collections Cassa di Risparmio Foundation in Bologna San Giorgio in Poggiale, with William Bignami, Gabriele Carletti, Alberto Giordano, Giancarlo Guicciardi, Sandro Pasqual, Mariarosa Pollastri, Duane Rosengard, Pietro Trimboli and Alessandro Urso
- The situation of violin making in Bologna in the 18th century in Fourth Tiverton Violin Conference, East Devon College 1989, ISBN 1-85522-062-8
- Tecniche basate sulla conoscenza per la classificazione di oggetti complessi, un'applicazione all'analisi di violini di interesse storico, graduation thesis by Alessandro Bugatti and Adriano Ragazzi on the identification of Bignami violins. Prof. Giovanni Guida: supervisor; Piero Mussio, Ing. Pietro Baroni, Dott. Renato Meucci, Roberto Regazzi: assistant supervisors and collaborator
- Uso di pirolisi con gas cromatografia e spettrometria di massa per lo studio delle vernici usate dagli antichi liutai, graduation thesis by Emanuela Marin, Bologna University 2007. Prof. Giuseppe Chiavari: supervisor; Roberto Regazzi: assistant supervisor
- Il Settecento Liutario Bolognese, Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio, Rome, 1989, Feb. 25th (lecture)
- Musical Instruments' Acoustics as seen from a violin maker's point of view through the ages, in: ICA 17th International Congress on Acoustics - Rome September 2–7, 2001
- La Liuteria in Emilia e Romagna dalle origini ai giorni nostri, Rimini 2002. Idealibri.
Discography
- Emanuele Giacopelli, 2 trios for violin,cello and piano - 2 trios for flute, violin and cello (Trio Siciliano, violin: Silviu Dima), Udamaris 2007: UME CD011
- Carl Michael BellmanCarl Michael Bellmanwas a Swedish poet and composer. Bellman is a central figure in the Swedish song tradition and remains a very important influence in Swedish music, as well as in Scandinavian literature in general, to this day....
: Bellman á Íslandi, JAPIS, Reykjavik 1996, ISBN 9979-9269-0-2 - - Ludwig van BeethovenLudwig van BeethovenLudwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
, Johannes BrahmsJohannes BrahmsJohannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...
, Beethoven-Brahms, Musicarte 2007 - Antonio VivaldiAntonio VivaldiAntonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
: Violin concertos, Op. 4, "La Stravaganza" 1-6, Tactus 1996 - Antonio Vivaldi: Violin concertos, Op. 4, "La Stravaganza" 7-12, Tactus 1996
- Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 1, 1-6, Tactus 1996
- Antonio Vivaldi: Trio Sonata for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo, Op. 1, 7-12, Tactus 1996
- Gian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco MalipieroGian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.-Early years:Born in Venice into an aristocratic family, the grandson of the opera composer Francesco Malipiero, Gian Francesco Malipiero was prevented by family troubles from pursuing his musical education in...
, Complete String Quartets, 2 CDs, Dynamic 1996 - Ottorino RespighiOttorino RespighiOttorino Respighi was an Italian composer, musicologist and conductor. He is best known for his orchestral "Roman trilogy": Fountains of Rome ; Pines of Rome ; and Roman Festivals...
- Giuseppe MartucciGiuseppe MartucciGiuseppe Martucci was an Italian composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. As a composer and teacher he was influential in reviving Italian interest in non-operatic music. As a conductor he helped to introduce Richard Wagner's operas to Italy and also gave important early concerts of English music...
, Piano Quintets, Ermitage 1993 - The Magic of Wood, Dynamic & Florenus 2005, with Rudolf Koelman, Salvatore Greco, Alberto Martini, etc., ISBN 88-85250-07-6
- Ottorino Respighi, Piano Quintets, with Patrizia Prati, Aura 1995: AUR 416-2
- Antonio BazziniAntonio BazziniAntonio Joseph Bazzini was an Italian violinist, composer and teacher. As a composer his most enduring work is his chamber music which has earned him a central place in the Italian instrumental renaissance of the 19th century...
, Sämtliche Streichquartette, 3 CDs, Dynamic 2002: CDT 418 - Giuseppe VerdiGiuseppe VerdiGiuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi was an Italian Romantic composer, mainly of opera. He was one of the most influential composers of the 19th century...
, Giacomo PucciniGiacomo PucciniGiacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer whose operas, including La bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot, are among the most frequently performed in the standard repertoire...
, Riccardo ZandonaiRiccardo ZandonaiRiccardo Zandonai was an Italian composer.-Biography:Zandonai was born in Borgo Sacco, Rovereto, then part of Austria–Hungary....
, Streichquartette, Dynamic 2004 - Box-Set Quartetti Italiani Von Boccherini Bis Malipiero, 10 CDs, Dynamic CDS486 2005
- Antonio Vivaldi, Violinkonzerte, 1996
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Sämtliche Streichquintette, 2 CDs, Dynamic 2006: CDS484
- Henry Purcell, Ciaccona, Gliarchiensemble CD, GAE 2008:
- Alberto Martini, Mark Van Aken, Roberto Loreggian, Bicentenaire De L'étude Des Notaires Dierckx Turnhout, Sonate, PRDSM2-02 2002
- Antonio Vivaldi, (Sonaten), Tactus
- Ottorino Respighi, Il Tramonto, Koch International 3-7215-2
- Charlie ChaplinCharlie ChaplinSir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin, KBE was an English comic actor, film director and composer best known for his work during the silent film era. He became the most famous film star in the world before the end of World War I...
, Dmitri Schostakovich, Sergej Rachmaninoff, Fun Time, Dynamic 1996: CDS195 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Luigi DallapiccolaLuigi DallapiccolaLuigi Dallapiccola was an Italian composer known for his lyrical twelve-tone compositions.-Biography:Dallapiccola was born at Pisino d'Istria , to Italian parents....
, Hans KrásaHans KrásaHans Krása was a Czech composer who was killed in the Holocaust at Auschwitz. He helped to organize cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
, Karl Amadeus HartmannKarl Amadeus HartmannKarl Amadeus Hartmann was a German composer. Some have lauded him as the greatest German symphonist of the 20th century, although he is now largely overlooked, particularly in English-speaking countries.-Life:...
, Isolamenti [1938–1945]/Concert No.1, Fonit Cetra 1997: NFCD 2033 - Antonio Vivaldi, Le Dodici Opere a Stampa (Violinkonzerte), Tactus 1996 -
- Antonio Vivaldi, 12 Opere a Stampa (Sonaten), Tactus
- Didier Large, Double Face, DL-Media7 1989
- Antonio Vivaldi, Konzerte für Streicher und Basso continuo, Naxos 1997
- Giovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista ViottiGiovanni Battista Viotti was an Italian violinist whose virtuosity was famed and whose work as a composer featured a prominent violin and an appealing lyrical tunefulness...
, Concerto No. 23; Sinfonie concertanti Nos. 1 & 2 (Aldo Sisillo), Naxos 1998 - Antonio Vivaldi, Opera 7 - Libro Primo (Concerti 1-6), Tactus 2000
- Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for violin & strings in Bf; Concerto for violin & strings in Dm, Tactus 1996
- Antonio Vivaldi, Flute Concertos Op. 10 with Marzio Conti, L’Offerta musicale di Venezia, Nuova Era 1994: 7192
- Claude DebussyClaude DebussyClaude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
, Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
, Akio YashiroAkio Yashirowas a Japanese composer, born in Tokyo. Yashiro entered the Tokyo Music Academy in 1945, where he studied composition under Kunihiko Hashimoto, Yujiro Ikeuchi, Akira Ifukube, and Tomojiro Ikenouchi, and piano under Noboru Toyomasu, Leonid Kreutzer, and Kiyo Kawakami...
, Akira MiyoshiAkira MiyoshiAkira Miyoshi is a Japanese composer.Miyoshi was a child prodigy on piano, studying with Kozaburo Hirai and Tomojiro Ikenouchi. He studied French literature at the University of Tokyo, and then at the Paris Conservatory with Henri Challan and Raymond Gallois-Montbrun from 1955 to 1957. He was...
, Chikashi Tanaka and Kazuoki Fujii, Camerata 2001: 28CM-612 - Domenico ScarlattiDomenico ScarlattiGiuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families. He is classified as a Baroque composer chronologically, although his music was influential in the development of the Classical style...
, Joaquín RodrigoJoaquín RodrigoJoaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...
, Jutta Wenzlaff and Thomas Bittermann, Sound Star-Ton 1992 - Nino RotaNino RotaNino Rota was an Italian composer and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti...
, La Strada, The Leopard, etc., conducted by Marzio Conti, Chandos 2003 - Orquestra MahatmaOrquestra MahatmaOrquestra Mahatma is an eclectic UK band which draws heavily on international music including Spanish, French, Bulgarian, Macedonian and Latin-American as well as jazz influences....
and the Solid Strings, Nightingale of a Thousand Joys, Villagelife 1999 - Iames Santi, 1999
- Giuseppe Martucci, Klavierquintett Op. 45, Aura 2002
- Sonia Slany and the Solid Strings, Bubbling Under, Villagelife 2000
- Cantos Yoruba de Cuba, KLE 2003
- I Concerti: Solo, Duo, Trio 2003
- Sonia Slany, Monochord Music, Villagelife
- Sonia Slany, Meeting Electra, Villagelife 1997
- Orquestra Mahatma, Live Stay Cool, Babel 2005: BDV 2557
- Luigi BoccheriniLuigi BoccheriniLuigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
, String Quartets Vol.1, Dynamic 1995: CDS 111 - Luigi Boccherini, String Quartets Vol.2, Dynamic 1995: CDS 127
- Luigi Boccherini, String Quartets Vol.3, Dynamic 1996 CDS 154
- Didier Large, Jazz Guitar Solo, Adda ETM 1991
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartets Op. 18 n.3 & Op. 59 n.3 'Rasumovsky, UNICEF - DC U33 / CD33 -
- Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-SaënsCharles-Camille Saint-Saëns was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, and his Symphony...
, Streichquartette, Dynamic 1997: CDS 179 - Ottorino Respighi, "Quartetto Dorico" & Quartet in D minor, Dynamic 2001
- Ruggiero Ricci, The Legacy of Cremona, Dynamic 2001: CDS373
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Ástor PiazzollaÁstor PiazzollaÁstor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...
, Un incontro con Dora, Aikoros 2000 - Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
, Cuartetos con Piano, Dahiz 1999: 8-431374-000136 - Hans Krása, Gideon KleinGideon KleinGideon Klein was a Czech pianist and composer of classical music, organizer of cultural life in Theresienstadt concentration camp.-Life:...
, Viktor UllmannViktor UllmannViktor Ullmann was a Silesia-born Austrian, later Czech composer, conductor and pianist of Jewish origin.- Biography :...
, Pavel HaasPavel HaasPavel Haas was a Czech composer who was murdered during the Holocaust. He was an exponent of Leoš Janáček's school of composition, and also utilized elements of folk music and jazz. Although his output was not large, he is notable particularly for his song cycles and string quartets.-Pre-war:Haas...
, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Forbidden, Not Forgotten: Suppressed Music from 1938-1945 (BOX SET 3 CDs), Homage 1995: 7001892