Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) - Concerto Grosso (d minor) from 'CONCERTI GROSSI | Con due Violini,
Viola e Violoncello | di Concertino Obligati, e due altri Violini | e
Basso di Concerto Grosso
Opera Quinta' (1729), H.143
Performers: Concerto Copеnhagеn
Further info: Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762) - Concerto Grossi
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Italian composer, violinist and theorist. His father was a violinist at
the Cappella Palatina in Lucca and probably taught his son. Francesco
Geminiani played professional violin in Naples by December 1706 and
then, on 27 August 1707, returned to Lucca to take his father’s
position. During this period, he may have studied with Arcangelo Corelli
and Alessandro Scarlatti. He left Lucca in September 1709. He appears
in London in 1714, where he began a career for himself as a violin
teacher and, with occasional public performances, won considerable
notice. Geminiani left London for Paris in 1732 and then, on 6 December
1733, arrived in Dublin to enter the service of Charles Moore, Baron of
Tullamore. Apart from occasional trips to Paris to publish his works,
and to London, he remained in this service until his death. His last
public performance took place on 3 March 1760. In 1761, on one of his
sojourns in Dublin, a servant robbed him of a musical manuscript on
which he had bestowed much time and labour. His vexation at this loss is
said to have hastened his death. As a composer, he published 48 violin
sonatas, and of 47 published concerti grossi, 23 are original, and 24
are arrangements of Corelli trio and violin sonatas. As a theorist, his
'Art of Playing the Violin' (1751) as well as the 'Guida Harmonia'
(1752) are seminal works demonstrating performance practice of this
period. His contemporaries in England considered him the equal of Georg
Friedrich Handel and Corelli. He was one of the greatest violinists of
his time, an original if not a prolific composer and an important
theorist.
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