Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798)
- Sinfonia (Si bemolle maggiore) a più Strumenti (c.1775)
Performers: Neue Düssеldorfеr Hofmusik; Mary Utіgеr (conductor)
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Italian violinist and composer. Trained under Giovanni Battista Somis
and Giuseppe Tartini, at the age of ten he began his career as a second
violinist in the orchestra at the Teatro Regio, Turin, though his
official appointment was delayed until 19 April 1748. Two years later he
made his debut at the Concerts spirituels in Paris. Was then when 'The
Mercure de France' wrote: ‘the connoisseurs insist that they have never
heard a violinist superior to this virtuoso’. From 1767 to 1769 he
served as conductor at the King’s Theatre in London, where his first
opera, 'Nanetta e Lubino' (1769), met with success. He also appeared in
concerts with Johann Christian Bach and other prominent musicians. In
1770 he became first violinist of the king’s music in Turin, a post his
teacher Somis had held and which included the leadership of the Teatro
Regio orchestra. His most famous pupil was Giovanni Battista Viotti,
with whom he toured Europe as far as Russia in the 1780s and 1790s,
thereby becoming the direct link between the early violin styles of
Tartini and the later international style represented by Viotti. His
last foreign journey took him to Vienna, where on 22 March 1796 he
conducted his orchestral suite based on Goethe’s Werther. As a composer,
he was known for his dramatic and harmonically adventurous works. These
include eight operas, the mentioned 'Werther', six concert arias, an
oratorio, three cantatas, 19 symphonies, eight quintets, five violin
concertos, six string quartets, 45 trios, 18 duets, 20 violin sonatas
and numerous dances.
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