ExclusiveTorelli: Violin Concerto in A major, PasT A.2.3.5

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Giuseppe Torelli: Violin Concerto in A major, PasT A.2.3.5. This beautiful piece was played by The Milan Baroque Soloists. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

"Torelli has given decisive impulses to the form of the Italian concerto. Playing together with like-minded people in the orchestra of the Basilica of San Petronio, he has further developed the concerto from the practice of the cherry service.... Torelli strove to consistently distinguish the thematic material between solo and tutti passages. He aligned it with the specific tonal and performance possibilities: concise themes to be played with broad strokes in the tutti ritornelli, virtuoso passages and playful fioritura in the solo parts. (Souce: Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, volume 13, page 559)

* 22.4.1658 Verona/Republic of Venice (I), † 8.2.1709 Bologna/Papal States (I). Composer, violinist and teacher of the violin. Son of Stefano and Anna (Boninsegna) T. He probably received his first musical education from Giuliano Massaroti in Verona, and studied composition under G. A. Perti. After working as a violinist at the Verona Cathedral (summer 1683–August 1684), he was accepted as a violinist at the Accademia Filarmonica in Bologna, where he probably also worked as a composer (‘compositore’) from 1692. In 1686 he was employed as a viola da gamba player in the chapel of the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. After the dissolution of the chapel, he stayed in Berlin in May 1697 together with Antonio Pistocchi. In 1698 he became ‘maestro di concerto’ in Ansbach, Germany. After that, he stayed in Vienna between December 1699 and March 1700, where, apparently, his oratorio Adam aus dem irdischen Paradiess verbannt was written and he also performed Pertis' Cantate morale e spirituali op. 1 (dedicated to Leopold I). In 1701 he returned to Bologna, where he was employed as a violinist in the newly established San Petronio chapel.

Torelli is considered to be one of the most important Italian instrumental composers of his time, who contributed significantly to the development of instrumental forms such as concerto grosso, concerto (concerto) and trio sonata, and wrote numerous works for trumpet. In this context, his obvious influence on the development of the violin style and the principle of concerto grosso in Vienna is important. Almost simultaneously with Torellis appointment as court composer in Vienna in 1699/1700, a significant increase in the use of the concerto grosso principle can be observed at the Vienna Court Opera. There is a close stylistic similarity between Torelli and the Viennese court composer G. Bononcini, both of whom worked in the chapel of San Petronio in Bologna in the 1680s. source: musiklexikon.ac.at

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