Gaetano Chiabrano (1725-1802) - Sonata per fagotto e basso

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Composer: Gaetano Chiabrano (1725-1802)
Work: Sonata per fagotto e basso
Performers: Sergio AzzoIini (fagot); EnsembIe I'Aurora Soave

Painting: Antoine Pierre Mongin (1761-1827) - Paysage fluvial avec ces ruines d'aqueduc à l'arrière plan (1792)
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(Gaspare Giuseppe) Gaetano Chiabrano [Chabran, Ciabran, Ciabrano]
(Turin, 9 February 1725 - 1802)

Italian cellist and composer. He came from a musical family: his father was the violinist Giovanni Nicola (c1686-1776) and his brothers the guitarist Giovanni Francesco Benedetto and violinist Carlo Giuseppe Valentino. He probably began his musical studies on the violin with his uncle, G.B. Somis, before learning the cello and double bass. As early as 1735 his father and uncle arranged for him to work in the Turin theatres accompanying the operas. He received an appointment as cellist and double bassist for the royal chapel and royal chamber in Turin on 27 December 1752, but continued theatre work until at least 1782. He also toured: he was probably the ‘Capperan’ who played the cello in the Paris Opéra orchestra and the Concert Spirituel in 1755 and six of his sonatas were published in Paris before 1780. He probably joined his brothers in London in 1784. He is thought to be the Chabran who played in the Concerts of Ancient Music that year. Other sonatas were published in London in 1767 and 1785, the latter advertising that the English cellist John Crosdill had played them. Chiabrano's cello writing is stylistically conservative, but tuneful. He favoured the three movement form of fast–slow–fast; the sonatas are constructed with idiomatic note patterns, double stops, and contrasting rhythms. He incorporated simple to moderately difficult shifting below the half-string harmonics in a manner similar to J.-B.S. Bréval's pedagogical sonatas. All 44 of his sonatas have been edited in Monumenti musicali italiani, xii: Monumenti di musica piedmontese, v (Milan, 1988). #ClassicalMusic