Georg Noëlli (1727-1789) - Pastorella Sonata
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Composer: Georg Noëlli (1727-1789)
Work: Pastorella Sonata
Performers: EnsembIe PantaIeon
Painting: Dirk Jan van der Laan (1759-1829) - Stadsgezicht in de winter
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Georg Noëlli
(Amsterdam?, 1727 - Ludwigslust, 24 September 1789)
Portuguese composer and pantaleonist. He studied the pantaleon with its inventor, Hebenstreit, counterpoint with Geminiani and with Martini at Bologna, and composition with Hasse at Dresden. During April and May 1752 and September 1757 a ‘Mr Noel(l)’ was listed as a composer and performer on the ‘cymbalo’ at the New Haymarket Theatre in London where, according to Schilling, he became a friend of Handel. In 1765 he was court musician at Brunswick, and in 1766, according to Pohl, a ‘Noel, Spieler des Pantaleon’ appeared again in London. In 1775 he met C.P.E. Bach at Hamburg. From 1776 until his death he was Cammermusikus and pantaleonist to Duke Frederick of Mecklenburg-Schwerin at Ludwigslust, where he performed on a new pantaleon purchased for him and played the violin, viola and cello in the chamber orchestra. As a pantaleon virtuoso, he made tours to France and Italy in 1782 and to Sweden and Denmark in 1778–9, turning down a lucrative offer from the Swedish court to remain there. In 1786 he travelled to Münster in Westphalia; he made his last visit to Hamburg in 1789. Gerber called him ‘the greatest and almost only master’ of the pantaleon; his improvisational ability was considered by his contemporaries comparable to that of W.F. Bach. Of his compositions a Pastorella and Sonata in C for harpsichord, violin and continuo survive in manuscript (D-SWl). Breitkopf published a sinfonia in Musikalisches Magazin in Sonaten, Sinfonien, Trios und änderen Stücken für das Klavier bestehend, vii (Leipzig, 1765); other sinfonias, quartets and trios, mentioned by Gerber, are lost. #ClassicalMusic