PILOTTI, Giuseppe (1784-1838) - Concerto per il Oboe

Giuseppe Pilotti (1784-1838) - Concerto (Concertino in Fa maggiore) per il Oboe

Performers: Diego Dini Ciacci (oboe); Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto

Painting: Anonymous (19th Century) - Portrait of Giuseppe Pilotti

Further info: Oboenkonzerte

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Giuseppe Pilotti

(Bologna, 2 January 1784 - Bologna, 12 June 1838)

Italian organist, composer and teacher. Born and raised in Bologna, his father was an organist and organ builder. Following in his footsteps, he played the organ in Bologna and nearby towns to support his family after his father's death. He studied counterpoint under Stanislao Mattei and was admitted to the Accademia Filarmonica in 1805. Later, he succeeded Mattei as choirmaster of San Petronio in Bologna and was appointed professor of counterpoint at the Liceo Filarmonica, a position he held until his death. Among his notable pupils were Michele Puccini and Francesco Cellini. As a composer, he wrote at least two operas: "L'ajo in imbarazzo" and "Non essere geloso." He also composed instrumental pieces, including three concertos, and sacred music. Additionally, he published a treatise on instrumentation titled "Breve insegnamento teorico sulla natura, estensione, proporzione armonica... per tutti strumenti." 

FASCH, Johann Friedrich (1688-1758) - Ouverture a 5 (c.1740)

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) - Ouverture (B-Dur) | a | 2 Hautb. | 2 Violin | Viola

| Basson | e | Cembalo (c.1740)

Performers: Mаin-Barockorchester Frankfurt; Martin Jοpp (conductor)

Painting: Martino Altomonte (1657-1745) - Elekcja Augusta II na Woli 27 czerwca 1697

Further info: Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) - Magnificat (c.1724)

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Johann (Johannes) Friedrich Fasch

(Buttelstädt, 15 April 1688 - Zerbst, 5 December 1758)

German composer. Son of the Kantor Friedrich Georg Fasch (1663-1700), he was recruited at age 13 by Johann Kuhnau for the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He founded a collegium musicum at the university there in 1708 through which Fasch became familiar with the Italian concertos of Antonio Vivaldi and others. Despite having little formal training in composition, he was invited to compose operas by Duke Moritz Wilhelm of Saxe-Zeit in 1711 and 1712, and, thereafter, he held positions as violinist in Bayreuth in 1714, as organist in Greiz until 1721, and then as Kapellmeister in Prague, before reluctantly accepting the same post in Zerbst in 1722. He was not altogether happy with the strict Lutheran regime there, but although he visited elsewhere, particularly Dresden, he remained in Zerbst for the rest of his life. His friend Georg Philipp Telemann gave performances of his church music in Hamburg, and Johann Sebastian Bach prepared several transcriptions of his overtures for performances with the Leipzig Collegium Musicum. Fasch's innovative orchestral writing foreshadowed the Classical style. Most of his vocal compositions (13 masses, 66 church cantatas, 9 church cantata cycles, 14 serenatas, and 4 operas) are lost, but his instrumental works survive in manuscript and represent an important pre-classical oeuvre: 87 overtures, 18 solo concertos, 46 ensemble concertos, 18 trio sonatas, 12 sonatas a quattro and 19 symphonies. After Georg Philipp Telemann, he probably was the most famous German composer toward the end of the Baroque. His son Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch (1736-1800) was harpsichordist and composer at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin from 1756.