Concerts
ORGEL•PUNKT 12: Bach & Italy with an Italian master organist
Andrea Macinanti (Bologna) performs masterpieces by Bach, Petrali, Puccini, and Costante Adolfo Bossi.
This coming Saturday, Basel Cathedral will host a joyful reunion with the Italian master organist Andrea Macinanti. He will perform works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Vincenzo Antonio Petrali (Sonata in F major), Giacomo Puccini (Chrysanthemums), Costante Adolfo Bossi (Prélude, Méditation, and Scherzo from the *Six morceaux pour orgue*, Op. 37), and, as the grand finale, Petrali’s festive *Sonata finale*.
ANDREA MACINANTI is one of Italy’s most respected concert organists. After studying organ, harpsichord, and voice at the conservatories of Bologna and Parma, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bologna and earned a doctorate in the philosophy of music with honors from the University of Geneva. He serves as professor of organ at the G. B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. His discography includes the complete organ works of Marco Enrico Bossi (Tactus, 17 CDs), Ottorino Respighi, Ireneo Fuser, Goffredo Giarda, Guido Alberto Fano, and Giovanni Tebaldini. As a musicologist, he has edited numerous significant critical editions, including Frescobaldi’s *Fiori Musicali*, the complete piano works of Alessandro Scarlatti and Padre Martini, an anthology of Italian organ music, and the *Opera Omnia Organistica* of M. E. Bossi. He is the curator of the important “Marino Marini” collection of mechanical instruments at the Carisbo Foundation in Bologna. In 2021, he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of Italy.
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ANDREA MACINANTI is one of Italy’s most respected concert organists. After studying organ, harpsichord, and voice at the conservatories of Bologna and Parma, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy at the University of Bologna and earned a doctorate in the philosophy of music with honors from the University of Geneva. He serves as professor of organ at the G. B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna. His discography includes the complete organ works of Marco Enrico Bossi (Tactus, 17 CDs), Ottorino Respighi, Ireneo Fuser, Goffredo Giarda, Guido Alberto Fano, and Giovanni Tebaldini. As a musicologist, he has edited numerous significant critical editions, including Frescobaldi’s *Fiori Musicali*, the complete piano works of Alessandro Scarlatti and Padre Martini, an anthology of Italian organ music, and the *Opera Omnia Organistica* of M. E. Bossi. He is the curator of the important “Marino Marini” collection of mechanical instruments at the Carisbo Foundation in Bologna. In 2021, he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic by the President of Italy.
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