Giuseppe Donati, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giuseppe Donati

Italian musical instrument maker

Date of Birth: 02-Dec-1836

Place of Birth: Budrio, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 14-Feb-1925

Profession: inventor, musician, musical instrument maker

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Giuseppe Donati (2 December 1836 – 14 February 1925) was the inventor of the classical ocarina, a ceramic wind instrument based on the principle of a Helmholtz resonator. Donati was born in Budrio.
Legend has it that he created his first "little goose" ("ocarina" in Italian dialect) in 1853, aged 17, whilst still working as a brickmaker.
His first ocarina-making workshop was in his hometown of Budrio.
When he moved to larger premises in Bologna in 1878, a fellow musician of the Gruppo Ocarinistico, Cesare Vicinelli, continued the Budrio workshop.
Donati died, aged 88, in Milan.