Liuwe Tamminga (25 September 1953 – 28 April 2021) was a Dutch
organist
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and harpsichordist, known for his
performances of Italian Early Music.
Biography
Liuwe Tamminga was born in
Hemelum
Hemelum ( fry, Himmelum) is a village in Súdwest Fryslân municipality, in the province Friesland of the Netherlands. It had a population of around 610 in January 2017.Groningen Conservatory and obtained his diploma in 1977 under Wim van Beek, after which he went to study in Paris with André Isoir and Jean Langlais, and eventually in
Italy
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Basilica di San Petronio
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in
Bologna
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, which contains historic organs by Lorenzo da Prato (1471–1475) and Baldassarre Malamini (1596). He shared this position for many years with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini who died in 2017.
His performances of
Renaissance
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and Baroque music, especially Italian, earned him the praise of specialized critics, as well as many awards. He held concerts all over the world and taught master classes in the most important early music institutions (at the Academy for Italian Organ Music in Pistoia, at the Haarlem Summer Academy for Organists, in Boston etc.). For many years he has collaborated with distinguished early music directors and performers, such as
Frans Brüggen
Franciscus ("Frans") Jozef Brüggen (30 October 1934 – 13 August 2014) was a Dutch conductor, recorder player and baroque flautist.
Biography
Born in Amsterdam, Brüggen was the last of the nine children of August Brüggen, a textile factory o ...
Odhecaton
The ''Harmonice Musices Odhecaton'' (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, also known simply as the ''Odhecaton'') is an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It is the first book of polyphonic mu ...
.
He contributed to the rediscovery and appreciation of less well-known composers, such as
Fiorenzo Maschera
Florentio Maschera (c. 1541–1584) was an Italian composer and organist of Brescia Cathedral, known for his organ pieces.''The Musical Standard'' 1880 "All these peculiarities are presented by the first illustration, a “Canzon” by Florentin ...
Jacques Buus
Jacques Buus (also Jakob Buus, Jachet de Buus) (late August, 1565) was a Franco-Flemish composer and organist of the Renaissance, and an early member of the Venetian School. He was one of the earliest composers of the ricercar, the predecesso ...
, and has published editions of works by Cavazzoni and Buus, among others. He recorded two compact discs of organ works by
Puccini
Giacomo Puccini ( Lucca, 22 December 1858Bruxelles, 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long ...
who was an organist in his early years.
He was the Curator of the San Colombano Museum – Tagliavini Collection in Bologna, a unique collection of instruments – both for its quality and for the number of instruments shown – inaugurated in 2010. Mostly dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, the instruments include clavichords, organs, harpsichords, spinets, pianos, and automatic instruments, as well as a few wind and folk instruments. He died in
Bologna
Bologna (, , ; egl, label=Emilian language, Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 1 ...
* 1991 – Andrea e Giovanni Gabrieli: Gli organi della Basilica di San Petronio -con Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini- ( Tactus)
* 1991 – Maestri Padani e Fiamminghi. Gli organi storici della Basilica di San Petronio I (Tactus)
* 1995 – Musica Nova, Venice 1540 (Tactus)
* 1997 – Palestrina – Giovanni de Macque. Works for organ ( Accent)
* 1998 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Works for Organ (Accent)
* 1998 – Ricercari. The art of the ricercar in 16th century Italy (Accent)
* 1999 – The Hermans organs in Pistoia and Collescipoli (Accent)
* 2000 – Organi antichi dell'Appenino bolognese (Tactus)
* 2003 – Basilicata. A musical journey in the Provinces of Naples (Accent)
* 2004 – Marco Antonio Cavazzoni. The complete Organ Works (Accent)
* 2005 – Girolamo Frescobaldi. Fantasie (1608) Canzoni (1615) (Accent)
* 2006 – Mozart on Italian organs (Accent)
* 2006 – Organi antichi dell'Appenino modenese (Tactus)
* 2008 – Islas Canarias. Historic organs of the Canary Islands (Accent)
* 2008 – Fiorenzo Maschera. Libro primo de canzoni da sonare (Passacaille)
* 2008 – Puccini, the organist (Passacaille)
* 2010 – Girolamo Frescobaldi. Ricercari (1615) (Passacaille)
* 2011 – Il Ballo di Mantova. Organ music in s. Barbara, Mantua (Accent)
* 2012 – Girolamo Frescobaldi. Capricci (1624) (Passacaille)
* 2012 – Giovanni Gabrieli. Canzoni (Passacaille)
* 2017 – Puccini, Organ works (Passacaille)
Publications
* ''Orgellitteratuur bij het Liedboek voor de Kerken'', Baarn Bosch & van Keuning, 1983
* ''Italienische Meister um 1600: 5 Stücke für zwei Orgeln'', Doblinger Verlag, 1988
* ''Musica Nova Ricercari (Venezia 1540)'', Andromeda editrice, 2001
* ''Giovanni de Macque Opere per tastiera – Vol. I Capricci-Stravaganze-Canzoni etc.'', Andromeda editrice, 2002
* ''Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Ricercari sugli otto toni, Thesaurum absconditum'', Andromeda editrice, 2003
* ''Jacques Buus Intabolatura d’Organo di Ricercari (Venezia 1549)'', Arnaldo Forni editore, 2004
* ''Marco Antonio Cavazzoni Recerchari Motetti Canzoni (Venezia 1523)'', Il Levante Libreria Editrice, 2008
Venezia
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* 1997 Choc de la musique
* 2004 Miglionico (Basilicata), medaglia d’oro Madonna della Porticella 2003
* 2005 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik
* 2006 Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik