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Battista "Pinin" Farina (later Battista Pininfarina) (2 November 1893 - 3 April 1966) was an Italian automobile designer, the founder of the Carrozzeria Pininfarina coachbuilding company, a name associated with many of the best-known postwar sports cars.

Battista Farina was born in Turin, Italy. The tenth of eleven children, his nickname, "Pinin" (the youngest/smallest (brother), in Piedmontese), referred to his being the baby of the family. Pinin started working in his brother Giovanni's body shop at the age of 12 and it was there that his interest in cars was born. He stayed at Giovanni's Stabilimenti Industriali Farina for decades, learning bodywork and beginning to design his own cars.

Pinin formed Carrozzeria Pininfarina in 1930 to focus on design and construction of new car bodies, and quickly gained prominence. Only Carrozzeria Touring was more sought-after in the 1930s. Battista's work for Ferrari, starting in 1952, would become his most famous, though much of it was managed by his son, Sergio, who currently runs the firm. Some time in the early 1950s Stabilimenti Farina was absorbed into the by now much larger Carrozzeria Pininfarina.

Farina officially changed his name to "Battista Pininfarina" in 1961. The change was authorized by President of the Italian Republic, acting on a proposal made by the Minister of Justice.

The last design personally attributed to Battista Farina was the iconic 1600 Duetto for Alfa Romeo. This was first seen by the public at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1966. He died less than a month later, on 3 April.

His nephew, Nino Farina, was the first Formula One world champion.

See also[link]

• Pininfarina

External links[link]

• Biography at Company's Official Site
• European Automotive Hall of Fame Inductee

Sergio Pininfarina (born Sergio Farina on 8 September 1926 in Turin, Piedmont^[1]) is an Italian senator for life and automobile designer.

Biography[link]

Automobile designer[link]

After joining his father Battista Farina at Carrozzeria Pininfarina, he quickly became integral to the company, and during his career oversaw many of the designs (particularly Ferraris) for which the company is famous. In 1961 his family surname was changed from Farina to Pininfarina, to match that of the company, by decree of the Italian president.

After his father's death in 1966, Pininfarina became chairman of the company.

In 2006 Sergio was named Honorary Chairman at Pininfarina, with his late son Andrea, dead in 2007.

Senator for life[link]

On 23 September 2005 he was named Senator for life of the Italian Republic^[1] by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi (together with Giorgio Napolitano).

On 21 February 2007 he attended the vote which saw the government motion on foreign policy being defeated in the Senate and led Prime Minister Romano Prodi to resign. Pininfarina, who attended his first Senate assembly in nine months, cast an "abstain" vote, which helped the opposition forces to defeat the government foreign policy. He has not voted since then.^[2]

Works[link]

• Peugeot 406 coupé

• Alfa Romeo 164

References[link]

• Biography at pininfarina.it

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Paolo Pininfarina (August 28, 1958) is an Italian engineer, designer and businessman, known as the manager of the world famous Pininfarina design company of his hometown of Turin (2008).^[1]

He studied mechanical engineering at Politecnico di Torino before joining his father Sergio Pininfarina's firm (1982), as trainee stationed abroad with Cadillac and Honda (1983), and then as quality manager of the Cadillac Allanté project (1984-86) and program manager of the Engineering GM 200 at General Motors (1987-89) which led to Chevrolet Lumina APV, Oldsmobile Silhouette and Pontiac Trans Sport. Paolo Pininfarina became the first manager of the new Pininfarina Extra S.r.l. (1987) which does design for non-automotive industries (furniture, appliances, maritime), while being in the upper management of the automobile firm as well (board member 1988, deputy chairman 2006) where he now is chairman (2008), succeeding his brother Andrea Pininfarina (1957-2008). Being a well known designer, he has been member in the steering board of Turin's Istituto Europeo di Design (1996-2004) and is emeritus participating founder of the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale of Milan.

References[link]

Giovanni Battista Buonamente (ca. 1595 – 1642) was an Italian composer and violinist in the early Baroque era. He served the Gonzagas in Mantua until about 1622, and from about 1626 to 1630 served the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. Notably, in 1627 he played for the coronation festivities in Prague of Ferdinand III, son of the emperor. He then served as the violinist of Madonna della Steccata church in Parma. After a short service there, he arrived at his final position in 1633 of maestro di cappella at Assisi.

Works[link]

His work is characteristic of early Baroque style, as evidenced in his Sonata 6. Brass, which was popularized in an arrangement by Robert King.

• Il quarto libro de varie de sonate, sinfonie, gagliarde, corrente, e brandi per sonar con due violini & un basso di viola (Venice, 1626)
• Il sesto libro di sonate et canzoni... (Venice, 1636)
• Il settimo libro di sonate, sinfonie... (Venice, 1637)

Literature[link]

• Cavalier Giovanni Battista Buonamente: Franciscan Violinist; 2005 Peter Allsop; ISBN 1-84014-627-3

External links[link]

• Free scores by Giovanni Battista Buonamente at the International Music Score Library Project
• Free scores by Giovanni Battista Buonamente in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)

Giovanni Battista Pescetti (Venice, ca. 1704 – Venice, 20 March 1766) was an organist and composer. Born in Venice around 1704, he studied under Antonio Lotti for some time. Having spent some time writing operas in and around Venice, he left for London in 1736, becoming director of the Opera of the Nobility in 1737.

After having to leave London when hostility arose against Catholic Italians, he returned to Venice in 1745 and became Second Organist at St Mark's.

Pescetti was active as a teacher of composition in Venice, his most famous students Josef Mysliveček (1737-1781) and Antonio Salieri (1750-1825). Although his output consists mainly of operatic works, a considerable amount of Pescetti's compositions were written for harpsichord, some intended to be performed on Pipe Organ, including his Six Sonatas, composed around 1756. Nowadays, his keyboard sonatas are generally performed on a modern piano, though various recordings exist that use the intended organ.

Sonata in C minor[link]

The popular Sonata in C minor was transcribed for harp by Carlos Salzedo. The first movement is in two four and opens with eighth notes outlining the tonic triad--C, down a fourth to G, up a sixth to E Flat and back down a third to C. This is echoed in the left hand as the right hand plays quarter notes E flat, C, B natural. The right hand now plays the melody again and continues on, transposing to G major, going through a short development and then ending in G. The melody repeats, then goes to a second section starting in E flat major. This section follows the same structure--melody in right hand, melody in left hand, melody in right hand, transposes back to c minor, goes through the same development and then ends in c minor. The second section repeats again and the movement ends.

The second movement in characterized by a quarter note melody embellished by grace notes with a triplet left hand accompaniment.

The third movement (presto) begins with the three notes of the C minor triad in a C-G-C-E flat pattern. This upwards moving passage then moves down from E flat to C then repeats the opening pattern with different notes, D-G-D-F and then descends from F to D and then returns to E flat. In order to complete this opening passage there is a downwards scale from E- flat to C and then leave the opening in a state of resolution, there is a final four note pattern, B natural-C-D and finally to G, the dominant. This is then repeated an octave lower. Throughout this, the left hand is playing short, staccato accompanying quarter notes whereas the right, which was discussed above, is playing eighth note tuplet. After the opening passage is complete, there is the a series of broken C major chords one octave above from where the opening passage ended. Each of these broken chords are repeated twice, modulating from C major to F minor to B flat major and finally, to E flat major. Once reaching E flat major, the relative major of C minor, there is a downwards scale continuing until reaching G, an octave lower. From this point, a new pattern emerges, consisting of the three notes: F, G, A flat and B flat. The notes are arranged in a G-A flat-B flat F-G-A flat pattern, which is repeated twice. After this pattern, a broken E flat major tonic chord is played, followed by another downwards scale once again beginning on C and continuing to a low F. Following the scale is a final closing pattern, one which is not heard in again in the piece. The closing bar ends with a broken E flat major chord beginning on G followed by the three notes C - A flat - G and closes in a E flat major cadence. (End of first part.)

Media[link]

	Allegretto in C Major Allegro in C minor
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Listen to an Allegretto in C major for harpsichord.
Listen to the Allegro ma non presto, first movement from Sonata in C minor for harpsichord.

External links[link]

• Free scores by Giovani Battista Pescetti at the International Music Score Library Project
• Free scores by Giovanni Battista Pescetti in the Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA)

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