Galuppi - "Passatempo al Cembalo" Sonate
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Label: Tactus
Cat No: TC700702
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 1st September 2008
Contents
Works
Keyboard Sonata in A major, no.37Keyboard Sonata in B flat major, Illy40
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, Illy38
Keyboard Sonata in C minor, no.38
Keyboard Sonata in D major, no.39
Keyboard Sonata in E major, Illy41
Keyboard Sonata in F major, no.36
Artists
Annalisa Martella (harpsichord)About
Galuppi had begun his career at the age of 20 as a virtuoso harpsichordist and composer for that instrument (the musical connoisseur Charles Burney called him “a good harpsichordist”) and he wrote no fewer than 130 sonatas for the keyboard.
Yet after 1760 he did not composed a single work for this instrument, and the sonatas for Paul I would have been forgotten if they had not reappeared almost half a century ago in the library of the conservatory in Genoa. These pieces are contained in a precious autograph manuscript of Sonate di Baldassar Galuppi detto il Buranello, dated 1781 and entitled “Passatempo al Cembalo” (a modern edition by Franco Piva was published by the Fondazione Cini in 1964).
We cannot be sure that these are the same sonatas which Galuppi dedicated to the Russian Granduke, but it is certain that they were intended for a noble music lover capable of performing very difficult music of an extremely elegant and refined character. The manuscript is particularly meticulous in its dynamic and expressive markings.
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