Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755-1818)
- Concerto (in Re maggiore) per il Violone obligato
Performers: Lucio Buccarella (violone); I Musici
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Italian violinist and composer. He studied the violin with Nazari, a
pupil of Tartini, and composition with Bertoni. For some years after
1780 he was active in Venice as a performer in theatres and in S Marco.
In 1796 he visited London and produced a popular ballet, La villageoise
enlevée, which was published the following year. In 1805 he settled in
Bergamo, where he was first violinist at S Maria Maggiore, professor of
violin at the Istituto Musicale, and leader of the orchestra at Teatro
Riccardi. He was highly regarded there both as a teacher and as a
performer. All of Capuzzi’s known compositions were written during his
Venetian years. With the exception of his London success, the ballets
were designed for performance between the acts of operas and were widely
known throughout Italy. His concertos and string quartets are
conventionally pleasing in melody but suffer from extreme simplicity of
texture. The rarity of Classical pieces for double bass has given
Capuzzi’s Concerto for violone a small place in the modern repertory.
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