Fonotipia Records, or Dischi Fonotipia, was an Italian gramophone record label established in 1904 with a charter to record the art of leading opera singers and some other celebrity musicians, chiefly violinists. Fonotipia continued to operate into the electrical recording era, which commenced in 1925–26, by which time the company had been absorbed into Odeon records. The records made by Fonotipia are prized by collectors and musicologists for their high technical quality, and for the high artistic merit and interest of much of what was captured for posterity.
The Fonotipia catalogues were reconstructed, so far as then possible, by the discophiles J.R. Bennett and James Dennis in 1953, and published in a limited edition. Fifty years later, a complete discography with accurate recording-session dates was compiled and made available to the public, following the rediscovery of key company documents. Fonotipia is not to be confused with the Phonotype record label which was active for part of the same period.
FonotipiaRecords, or Dischi Fonotipia, was an Italian gramophone record label established in 1904 with a charter to record the art of leading opera singers...
England's His Master's Voice (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) or Italy's FonotipiaRecords. After an abortive attempt in 1904 to manufacture discs with the recording...
into a public company, the Carl Lindström A.G. and in 1903 purchased FonotipiaRecords, including their Odeon-Werke International Talking Machine Company...
the first of over seven hundred gramophone records. All his vocal recordings were made for the Odeon Records label, and after 1933 for the associated Parlophone...
performed in 1915. "Vissi d'arte" "Vissi d'arte" from Giacomo Puccini's Tosca; recorded in 1914. Problems playing these files? See media help. Her likeness appeared...
committed to disc in 1907-08. In 1909-10 she made discs for Fonotipia, with excerpts recorded from Il barbiere, Don Pasquale, La sonnambula, Roméo et Juliette...
is preserved on numerous recordings which he made for the Gramophone, Fonotipia and Victor companies in Italy and America from the early 1900s through...
Jacques Thibaud (French pronunciation: [ʒak tibo]; 27 September 1880 – 1 September 1953) was a French violinist. Thibaud was born in Bordeaux and studied...
Gramophone Company in 1903, followed by a long series for FonotipiaRecords. Later, he recorded for the Columbia, Edison and HMV labels. These recordings...
Franz von Vecsey (born Ferenc Vecsey; 23 March 1893 – 5 April 1935) was a Hungarian violinist and composer, who became a well-known virtuoso in Europe...
preserved on fewer than 20 acoustic discs that he made in Milan for FonotipiaRecords and the Pathé company in 1905 and 1919 respectively. They include...
Enzo, Cavaradossi, Loris and Lensky, among others. Anselmi recorded for FonotipiaRecords in Milan (1907-1910), with excerpts from Don Pasquale, Rigoletto...
Marechiare, 1902. FonotipiaRecords. De Lucia also recorded 30 Neapolitan songs for the Fonotipia label (later subsumed by Odeon Records). This company began...
From 1913 to 1928, Dalla Rizza made several recordings, for Columbia and Fonotipia, of excerpts from Faust, I lombardi, La forza del destino, La traviata...
repertoire to dramatic soprano parts. She made five recordings with FonotipiaRecords in Paris in 1905. Born Adele Schillinger in Boston to Elizabeth Doane...
1946. She made a valuable set of recordings for FonotipiaRecords and Columbia Records. She recorded Falla's Siete canciones populares españolas with...
Maria Jeritza (born Marie Jedličková; 6 October 1887 – 10 July 1982) was a dramatic soprano, long associated with the Vienna State Opera (1912–1934 and...
1940, at the age of 70. Bonci's artistry was captured on disc by the Fonotipia, Edison and Columbia companies. His first recordings were made in 1905...
gramophone record (called a phonograph record in the U.S., where both cylinder records and disc records were invented), a wide variety of records have also...
Rosina Storchio (19 January 1872 – 24 July 1945) was an Italian lyric coloratura soprano who starred in the world premieres of operas by Puccini, Leoncavallo...
of duets and individual arias which Stracciari made for FonotipiaRecords and Columbia Records before, during and after World War One, he participated...
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