Luogo - Museum

San Colombano - Collezione Tagliavini

Where Via Parigi, 5, Bologna

St. Columban is an ecclesiastical complex consists of a series of buildings aggregated over the centuries, from the seventh century. In recent restoration have been brought to light a crucifixion parietal thirteenth century attributed to Giunta Pisano, a medieval crypt and tomb of the thirteenth century. 

Opened June 21, 2010, the complex houses a collection of ancient musical instruments donated by Maestro Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, consisting of approximately ninety pieces, including harpsichords, spinets, pianos clavichords ee a collection of wind instruments and popular dating from the centuries between the sixteenth and XIX .. it also preserves the specialized library of the Bolognese musicologist Oscar Mischiati. 

The history of the collection of ancient musical instruments began in 1969, when Tagliavini buy a spinet '500 traced to Bologna and then to the great harpsichord built in 1679 by three registers Lucca Giovanni Battista Giusti, what still considers one the most important pieces of the collection. From that moment begins the actual research collecting. 

"Every new instrument was a contribution to the knowledge of design or sound or aspects of performance practice harpsichord," he wrote Tagliavini more than twenty years ago.

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