Francisco José de Castro (c.1670-c.1730) - Concerti accademici a quattro (1708)

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Composer: Francisco José de Castro (c.1670-c.1730)
Work: Concerti accademici a quattro, cioe un'oboe, due violini e violone con la parte per il cembalo consecrati all'Illustrissimo Signore Carlo da Persico dall'Accademico Formato, Opera Quarta (1708)
Performers: Collegium Instrumentale

Concerti accademici a quattro (1708)
1. Concerto Terzo 0:00
2. Concerto Settimo 4:47
3. Concerto Ottavo 9:38

Painting: August Querfurt (1696-1761) - A military camp
HD image: https://flic.kr/p/2sy9GgW

Further info: https://www.baba.es/es/francisco-jose-de-castro-concerti-accademici/1240
Listen free: https://open.spotify.com/album/1EjkjfR9AmXDsVE1yeXncW

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Francisco José (Francesco Giuseppe) de Castro [‘Accademico Formato’]
(Sevilla, c.1670 - c.1730)

Spanish composer. He was a Jesuit novice, educated at the Collegio dei Nobili di San Antonio Viennese in Brescia, where he studied music with the composer and organist Paris Francesco Alghisi. He was sponsored as a member of the Accademia dei Formati by Count Cayetano Giovanelli, to whom he dedicated his first publication, 'Trattenimenti armonici da camera a tre, due violini, violoncello, o cembalo ... opera prima' (Bologna, 1695). Like Castro's other three publications, the Trattenimenti armonici were issued under the pseudonym ‘Accademico Formato’. No exemplars of opp.2 and 3 are known; op.4 is a set of 'Concerti accademici a quattro, cioe un'oboe, due violini e violone con la parte per il cembalo ... Opera Quarta' (Bologna, 1708). He was one of the few Spanish composers of this period who cultivated the non-religious instrumental music genre. He was not related to Spanish playwright Francisco de Castro (1672-1713).