Alessandro Felici (1742-1772) - Sonata III degli 'Sei Sonate da Cimbalo' IAF 4
World Premiere Recording
Performers: Sibelius + Instruments samples (edited by Pau NG)
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Italian composer. He studied first with his father, Bartolomeo, then
proceeded to advanced studies with Giuseppe Castrucci in Florence
(1756-64) and with Gennaro Manna in Naples (1764-65). He became a
teacher at his father’s school in 1767 where his pupils included the
singer Francesco Porri and Luigi Cherubini. He has been confused with
the composer Felice Alessandri. His first work, the dramma giocoso La
serva astuta, was performed at the Teatro del Cocomero by Giovanni
Roffi’s Compagnia Toscana. According to the Gazzetta toscana, the
success of his Antigono the following year could not have been greater
nor the house fuller. He was chosen to compose a dramatic cantata,
Apollo in Tessaglia, to inaugurate concerts presented by the Accademia
degl’Ingegnosi in 1769. His most successful (and only surviving) opera
was 'L’amore soldato', a dramma giocoso, given in Venice in 1769 and
subsequently in Turin, Parma, Florence, Sassuolo and Leipzig. His
dramatic music, by comparison with that of his contemporaries Giovanni
Marco and Ferdinando Rutini, Moneta and Neri Bondi, is highly
expressive, offering presentiments of more Romantic styles, especially
when portraying melancholy moods. His instrumental music was probably
written for use in the concerts of the Accademia degl’Ingegnosi or for
private concerts such as the one he directed in the Casa Zanobi Leoni in
Florence (30 June 1771). His four keyboard concertos show a remarkable
maturation, which suggests that had he lived longer Felici would have
won a secure place among the leading composers of the genre. The A major
concerto displays great elegance, expressiveness of style and a
thorough comprehension of the concept of the keyboard concerto that was
evolving at the time in London and Vienna.
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