Alberto Mateo Poggi was born in Genoa in 1855,
son of the organ builder Santiago Poggi, builder, among others, of the organ of the Genoa cathedral (1830).
Santiago Poggi moved to He went to Buenos Aires in 1867 to start a business manufacturing organs.
Alberto Mateo was apprenticed to his father, during whose life he participated in the manufacture of various
organs designed by it.
After the death of his father, which occurred In 1874, he began with a business
own, building a good number of organs in Argentina.
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In the 1890s he built two bodies in Chile.
Alberto Mateo Poggi died in Buenos Aires in 1935.
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