La voce del padrone

For the 1981 album by Franco Battiato, see La voce del padrone (album).

La voce del padrone was the Italian label for the His Master's Voice recording house. The house belonged to The Gramophone Company Ltd., of Hayes (Middlesex, United Kingdom) which owned several labels in Italy, like Columbia, Marconiphone, Angel Records and Grammofono.

Image of a 78rpm of an aria from Giuseppe Verdi's Ernani, recorded by Grammofono/La voce del padrone

From 1904, Gramophone Company records were published and distributed in Italy by Saif (Società Anonima Italiana di Fonotopia), a company based in Milan. When the Gramophone Company and the Columbia Graphophone Company merged in 1931 to form EMI, Saif in turn merged with Columbia's Italian arm, SNG (Società Nazionale del Grammofono).

See also

• His Master's Voice

Sources

• Mario De Luigi (1982). L'industria discografica in Italia. Rome: Lato Side.
• Mario De Luigi (2008). Storia dell'industria fonografica in Italia. Milan: Musica e Dischi.
• Vito Vita (2019). Musica solida. Turin: Miraggi Edizioni.

External links

• "La voce del padrone". icbsa.