Dublin Guitar Symposium
The exhibition features four rare guitars that show the differences in construction in the various European capitals: Fabbricatore, Lacote, Stauffer, Panormo. With Gabriele Lodi and Enrica Savigni.
Gennaro Fabbricatore, Naples 1802
René Francoise Lacoté, Paris 1824
Anton George Stauffer, Vien 1840
Luis Panormo, London 1836
The exhibition features four rare guitars that show the differences in construction in the various European capitals.
The most represented luthiers of the nineteenth century have been chosen for this exhibition. Each guitar has different organological and sound characteristics that shows the great variety of approaches in the nineteenth guitar construction.
In his lecture, Gabriele will explore the relationship between most important makers and composers of the classical guitar romantic time in the main European artistic capitals. During the lecture, Enrica Savigni will play some examples on these great instruments.
The theme of this second symposium “Back to the Future” is a particularly prescient one at this point in time, resonating on many different levels in all of our lives. As we celebrate the guitar through its music, instruments, performers and research, we cannot do so without having with one eye on its past and the path that it has led to this moment and what is to come. Here in TU Dublin we are Ireland’s first Technological University as of January 2019, a birth that emerged from three Institutes of Technology with their own distinguished traditions. As the former DIT campuses move towards the newer single Dublin city campus, we are travelling a historic path as our much beloved locations and schools gather their strengths as ‘one’ in Grangegorman. And as you walk around Grangegorman during these Symposium days, you will notice beautiful historic buildings that have been restored alongside brand new buildings – some, including the Conservatory’s new building beside the Clock Tower are still being built – demonstrating visually and vividly the connection between the past, present and future.
