Francesco Veracini (1690-1768) - Ouverture (I, B-Dur) a piu strumenti
Performers: Musica Antiqua Köln; Reinhard Goеbеl (conductor)
Further info: Ouvertures
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Italian composer and violinist. He was born into a family of musicians
and artists. His grandfather was one of the first violinists of
Florence; his uncle Antonio Veracini (1659-1733) was that and a fine
composer as well. He studied violin with his uncle, with whom he
appeared in concerts in Florence, and also received instruction from
Giovanni Maria Casini and Francesco Feroci, and from Giuseppe Antonio
Bernabei in Germany (1715). In 1711 he went to Venice, where he appeared
as a soloist at the Christmas masses at San Marco; in 1714 he gave a
series of benefit concerts in London, and in 1716 entered the private
service of the Elector of Saxony; in 1717 he went to Dresden and entered
the court service. In 1723 he returned to Florence, where he was active
as a performer and composer of sacred works; he also gave private
concerts. In 1733 he returned to London, where he played for the Opera
of the Nobility, a rival to Handel's opera company; he also composed
operas during his London years. In 1745 he returned to Italy, where from
1755 until his death he was maestro di cappella for the Vallambrosian
fathers at the church of S. Pancrazio in Florence; he also held that
position for the Teatini fathers at the church of S. Michele
agl'Antinori there (from 1758). He acquired a reputation as an
eccentric, and some considered him mad. Nonetheless he was esteemed as a
violinist and composer. Charles Burney remarked that ‘by travelling all
over Europe he formed a style of playing peculiar to himself’.
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