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Lorenzo da Pavia [Gusnaschi, Lorenzo; Gusnasco, Lorenzo]
Denzil Wraight
https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.43544
Published in print: 20 January 2001
Published online: 2001
(d 1517). Italian instrument maker who worked in Venice. He is known both through an organ with paper
pipes of 1494 and his correspondence with Isabella d'Este, a customer and patron who commissioned a
virginal (clavicordio) from Lorenzo in 1496. This instrument is probably the one depicted in an intarsia in
Isabella's grotta in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, which shows the earliest known use of the C/E–c‴ compass
in string keyboard instruments. Although Lorenzo made several harpsichords and lutes, his organ of 1494
is the only instrument known to have survived. This is a rare example of the use of paper pipes and also
testifies to the probable use of a tuning close to ⅓-comma mean-tone (see Wraight) 77 years before it was
first described in print by Zarlino (Dimostrationi harmoniche, 1571, p.221). According to Donati it had a
compass FG–f‴ with two ranks of pipes at 6′ and 3′ pitch. It is held in the Museo Correr, Venice.
Bibliography
M. Tiella: ‘The Positive Organ of Lorenzo da Pavia’, Organ Yearbook, 7 (1976), 4–15
C.M. Brown and A.M. Lorenzoni: Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia (Geneva, 1982)
P.P. Donati: ‘1470–90: Organi di cartone degli studiolo dei principi’, La Musica a Firenze al tempo di Lorenzo il
Magnifico: Florence 1992, 275–81
D. Wraight: The Stringing of Italian Keyboard Instruments c1500–c1650, 2 (diss., Queen's U. of Belfast, 1997), 194–210](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/vocelorenzodapaviagrove-230407164908-0af0cbe3/85/voce-Lorenzo-da-pavia-grove-pdf-1-320.jpg)
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- 1. Lorenzo da Pavia [Gusnaschi, Lorenzo; Gusnasco, Lorenzo] Page 1 of 1 Printed from Grove Music Online. Grove is a registered trademark. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a single article for personal use (for details see Privacy Policy). Subscriber: CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA DI TORINO; date: 10 September 2022 Lorenzo da Pavia [Gusnaschi, Lorenzo; Gusnasco, Lorenzo] Denzil Wraight https://doi.org/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.43544 Published in print: 20 January 2001 Published online: 2001 (d 1517). Italian instrument maker who worked in Venice. He is known both through an organ with paper pipes of 1494 and his correspondence with Isabella d'Este, a customer and patron who commissioned a virginal (clavicordio) from Lorenzo in 1496. This instrument is probably the one depicted in an intarsia in Isabella's grotta in the Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, which shows the earliest known use of the C/E–c‴ compass in string keyboard instruments. Although Lorenzo made several harpsichords and lutes, his organ of 1494 is the only instrument known to have survived. This is a rare example of the use of paper pipes and also testifies to the probable use of a tuning close to ⅓-comma mean-tone (see Wraight) 77 years before it was first described in print by Zarlino (Dimostrationi harmoniche, 1571, p.221). According to Donati it had a compass FG–f‴ with two ranks of pipes at 6′ and 3′ pitch. It is held in the Museo Correr, Venice. Bibliography M. Tiella: ‘The Positive Organ of Lorenzo da Pavia’, Organ Yearbook, 7 (1976), 4–15 C.M. Brown and A.M. Lorenzoni: Isabella d'Este and Lorenzo da Pavia (Geneva, 1982) P.P. Donati: ‘1470–90: Organi di cartone degli studiolo dei principi’, La Musica a Firenze al tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico: Florence 1992, 275–81 D. Wraight: The Stringing of Italian Keyboard Instruments c1500–c1650, 2 (diss., Queen's U. of Belfast, 1997), 194–210