Polibio Fumagalli (1830-1900)
Brillante alla galop in Fa “Dopo il Vespro”, op. 203
Giorgiatown, marcia campestre, op. 275
La caccia, Capriccio in Mib, op. 257
Scherzino per Flauto ed Ottavino op. 244
Mac Mahon, marcia in Mib, op. 85
Toccata e Fuga, op. 298
Suonata per la Consumazione, op. 189
Marcia dopo la Messa, op. 189
Fantasia in La, op. 284, n. 1
Sonate n° 6 en fa, op. 81
Vezzoso per Flauto
Offertorio, op. 189
Aspirazione. Melodia (da Ascetica Musicale), op. 235
Tempo di Sonata
Breve fantasia in Sib, op. 256
La danza degli astri Bizzarria op. 235
Marcia della Guardia Nazionale, op. 87

Fabio Re, orgue (Orgue Serassi du Duomo de Valenza, 1852)

Within this album is proposed a small part of the immense Polibio Fumagalli organ music production. Prolific and talented composer, Fumagalli found himself through the great crisis that shook the world of the organ music in Italy in the second half of the nineteenth century, culminated with the famous Motu Proprio of Pope Pius X in 1903, that officially gave way to the Cecilian reform. Through his best student, Marco Enrico Bossi, who quickly became the greatest world-renowned concert player of his time, Fumagalli realizes that the organ music developed in Italy till that time was coming to an end, and from the rest of the world a new music was coming completely apart from the world of the opera. For this reason, and understanding he had nothing to learn from the Italian organ panorama, too tied to the stylistic features of melodrama, Bossi abandoned his studies. Finally Fumagalli will react by experimenting new forms and innovating his writing, engaging in an arduous task here credited by organist Fabio Re on the monumental Serassi (1852) organ in the cathedral of Valenza.