Doppio Borgato

Doppio Borgato

Doppio Borgato

Doppio Borgato is a double piano of extensive form, joining a concert grand together with a second piano, activated by a pedal board with 37 pedals (A0 to A3), similar to that of the organ. Designed and hand-crafted by Luigi Borgato, it was patented in 2000.

Compositions for Doppio Borgato

Specifically for Doppio Borgato are composed:

• Cristian Carrara
  • "Magnificat, Meditation" for piano with pedalboard and orchestra (2011)
• Giuseppe Lupis
  • Gounod-Lupis "Marche funèbre d'une marionnette" (2011)
• Nimrod Borenstein
  • "Fireworks" Op. 57 (2011)
  • Grieg-Borenstein "In the hall of the mountain-king" arranged for piano with pedalboard (2011)
• Michael Glenn Williams
  • "Tip Tap" (2011)
• Ennio Morricone (1928-)
  • "Quarto Studio Bis" (2011)
• Andrea Morricone (1964-)
  • "Omaggio a J.S.B." (2011)
• Franco Oppo (1935-)
  • "Freu dich sehr o meine Seele" (2000)
• Fabrizio Marchionni (1976-)
  • "S’Indàssa" (2000)
• Charlemagne Palestine (1945 or 1947-)
  • Compositions for pedal piano (2005)
• Jean Guillou (1930-)
  • "Epitases" (2001)

Further reading

• Jean Guillou, 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, Holland, 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