Doppio Borgato is a
Pedal piano
The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier,) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the organ.
There are two broad types of pedal pianos: either the pedal ...
made by joining a regular
concert grand (Model L 282) with a second piano, activated by a
pedal board with 37 pedals (A0 to A3), similar to that of the
organ (P 398). Designed and manufactured by
Luigi Borgato, it was patented in 2000.
Compositions for Doppio Borgato
Specifically for Doppio Borgato are composed:
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Cristian Carrara
**"Magnificat, Meditation" for piano with pedalboard and orchestra (2011)
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Giuseppe Lupis
Giuseppe Lupis (1896 – 1979) was an Italian journalist and socialist politician, a member of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party. He settled in the United States when Italy was under Fascist rule. Then he returned to Italy and held numerous ...
**Gounod-Lupis "Marche funèbre d'une marionnette" (2011)
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Nimrod Borenstein
Nimrod Borenstein ( he, נמרוד בורנשטיין; born in 1969) is a British-French-Israeli composer whose music is widely performed throughout Europe, the US, Canada, Australia and Japan. His works are becoming part of the repertoire of ma ...
**"Fireworks" Op. 57 (2011)
**Grieg-Borenstein "In the hall of the mountain-king" arranged for piano with pedalboard (2011)
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Michael Glenn Williams
Michael Glenn Williams (born October 23, 1957 in Lancaster, California) is an American composer, pianist and technologist.
Biography
Williams' earliest years were spent in New York City, beginning trumpet studies and composing at 8 years old. ...
**"Tip Tap" (2011)
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Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classica ...
(1928–2020)
**"Quarto Studio Bis" (2011)
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Andrea Morricone
Andrea Morricone (born 10 October 1964) is an Italian composer and conductor, known for his film scores. He is the third child, and second son, of late composer and Academy Award winner Ennio Morricone.
He composed the film scores for the Americ ...
(born 1964)
**"Omaggio a J.S.B." (2011)
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Franco Oppo
Franco Oppo (2 October 1935 – 14 January 2016) was an Italian composer and scholar.
Born in Nuoro, Oppo studied at the Conservatory of Cagliari, graduating in piano (1958), choral music and choral conducting (1960), and composition (1961). Sinc ...
(1935–2016)
**"Freu dich sehr o meine Seele" (2000)
*Fabrizio Marchionni (born 1976)
**"S’Indàssa" (2000)
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Charlemagne Palestine
Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine (born 1947), known professionally as Charlemagne Palestine, is an American visual artist and musician. He has been described as being one of the founders of New York school of minimalist music, first initiated by La ...
(1945 or 1947-)
**Compositions for pedal piano (2005)
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Jean Guillou
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal ...
(1930–2019)
**"Epitases" (2001)
* Anything written for Pipe Organ can also be played on the Doppio Borgato
Pedal piano
The pedal piano (or piano-pédalier or pédalier,) is a kind of piano that includes a pedalboard, enabling bass register notes to be played with the feet, as is standard on the organ.
There are two broad types of pedal pianos: either the pedal ...
.
Further reading
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Jean Guillou
Jean Victor Arthur Guillou (18 April 1930 – 26 January 2019) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and pedagogue. Titular Organist at Saint Eustache in Paris, from 1963 to 2015, he was widely known as a composer of instrumental and vocal ...
, ''La Lettre de l'Argos'', Paris, December 2001.
* Brian T. Majeski, ''The Music Trades'', November 2000, p. 86.
* ''Pianist Magazine'', April May 2006 UK.
* Honka Verdurmen, ''Piano Wereld'', Netherlands, August–September 2005.
* Larry E. Ashley, ''Pierce Piano Atlas'', 12th edition, Larry E. Ashley Publisher, Albuquerque NM U.S.A., 2008, p. 58.
* Géreard Gefen, ''Piano'', Editions du Chêne – Hachette Livre, 2002 p. 59, 166, 170, 180.
* Atanasio Cecchini, ''Piano Dream. History of the Piano'', Mosè Edition, 2007 p. 170-171.
* Dario Miozzi, in ''Musica'' Rivista di cultura musicale e discografica, Zecchini Editions, December 2010 – January 2011 p. 54, 59–60.
* Luca Segalla, in ''Musica'', Rivista di cultura musicale e discografica, Zecchini Editore, n°224 March 2011 p. 68
*Stuart Isacoff, on the book ''A Natural History of the Piano'', The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians—from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between, edited by Alfred A. Knopf, New York 2011, p. 48
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