When you think of Italy, you think of early music,
but...
Did you know: The Kingdom of Italy (Italian: Regno d'Italia) was a state that came into existence in 1861 during Italian unification and ceased to exist in 1946, when Italy became a republic
We are now looking at music from before and after that time
Music you can hear in order of composers births.
-- Bartolomeo Tromboncino/Kate Macoboy/Robert Meunier - Mia ventura al venir se fa più tarda
Composer: Francesco Landini (c. 1325 – 2 September 1397) was an Italian composer and organist. As a result of smallpox, he became blind at an early age. He was the most famous composer of the Trecento.
-- (La Reverdie) Questa fanciulla Amor (Francesco Landini)
Giulio Caccini (1545-1610)- The new music
Already before 1600 Caccini wrote his first opera Dafne, which has been lost
Caccini became famous with his collection of lyrical vocal pieces for one voice with musical accompaniment Le nuove musiche, written in 1601. In the preface to this book he claims to have been using this monodic spelling for some fifteen years.
-- G. Caccini, Brinums - G. Caccini, Brinums / Ave Maria
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1555–1612) was a composer, organist and priest from Venice. He is regarded as the greatest Venetian composer of the late Renaissance, one of the most important musicians of his time
-- Anner Bylsma - Gabrielli - Ricercar VI, G major
-- Giovanni Gabrielli, Brass Ensemble - Song:
Sol Sol la Sol
Italian Opera
The opera, in the first years of its existence still referred to as dramma per musica or favola in musica, found adherents and practitioners in other cities after its first realization in Florence.
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer and conductor. Monteverdi's work marks the transition from Renaissance to Baroque music.
-- Claudio Monteverdi/Mariana Flores/Mediterranean Chapel/Leonardo García-Alarcón - L'Orfeo, SV 318: Prologue - From My Beloved Permission
Girolamo Frescobaldi (September 1583 – March 1, 1643) was an Italian composer and organist of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. He studied with Luzzaschi and settled in Rome in 1604.
-- Girolamo Frescobaldi - Canzona Quarta
Antonio Caldara (1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian composer of Baroque music. Biography. Caldara was the son of a Venetian violinist. At a young age, he became a chorister at St. Mark's Basilica in Venice, where he learned to play various instruments.
-- Antonio Caldara- Credo
Niccolò Paganini (27 October 1782 – 27 May 1840) was an Italian violinist and composer whose virtuosity on his instrument has become legendary, partly due to carefully cultivated mysteries surrounding his personality.
Massimo Quarta (born 16 October 1965) is an Italian violinist and conductor. Originally from Lecce, in Salento, he studied at the "Tito Schipa" Conservatory in Lecce and specialized in violin with Beatrice Antonioni, Salvatore Accardo, Abram Shtern, Pavel Vernikov.
-- Massimo Quarta - Adagio
The text was written in the autumn of 1847 in Genoa, by the 20-year-old student and patriot Goffredo Mameli (1827-1849), in a climate in which the people were revolting for the unification and independence of Italy.
It wasn't until October 12, 1946, that Italy became a republic, and Il Canto degli Italiani was chosen as the country's new national anthem. This choice was legally established on 23 November 2012.
-- The Italian National anthem - INNO DI MAMELI
Fratelli d’Italia, l’Italia s’è desta, dell’elmo di Scipio
s’è cinta la testa…
Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an organist, pianist and conductor. Verdi was one of the greatest composers of Italian operas, of which he wrote a total of twenty-six. His operas were very popular during his lifetime and still are.
-- Riccardo Chailly: Bologna Teatro Communale Philharmonic Orchestra - Verdi: Otello - Act 3: Ballet Music
-- Giuseppe Verdi - We Are Gypsies
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and organist. He is known for his sonatas for keyboard, which have had an important influence on Spanish and English keyboard music due to their style and technical requirements.
-- Welmoed Poelstra, Piano - Scarlatti, Sonatas K87 In B
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was a Venetian Baroque composer and violinist.
--Ole Kinch , Lis Fagerlund , H. Grabow Petersen , Bendt Anker & Jorgen Ernst Hansen - Albinoni: Trio Sonata in A, Op. 1, No. 3
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian violinist, priest and composer. He is best known for Le Quattro Stagioni (The Four Seasons), a cycle of four violin concertos, but has more than 700 compositions to his name, in many instrumental and vocal genres.
-- I Solisti di Zagreb , Antonio Janigro & Jan Tomosow - Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315, "L'estate" (The Four Seasons - Summer): III. Presto
Francesco Onofrio Manfredini (22 June 1684 – 6 October 1762) was an Italian violinist, church musician and composer of Baroque music.
-- Francesco Onofrio Manfredini - Manfredini: Symphony No. 10 in C minor: I. Adagio and prominence
Francesco "Saverio" Geminiani (5 December 1687 – 17 September 1762) was an Italian violin virtuoso, music teacher and composer. He studied violin, first with Carlo Ambrogio Lonati in Milan, and then with Arcangelo Corelli. He studied composition with Alessandro Scarlatti. Geminiani's music is freer and more emotional than that of his illustrious predecessor and teacher Corelli.
-- Café Zimmermann - Concerti grossi op. 7 Concert in C H117 I French Presto
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (c. 1700 – 15 January 1775) was an Italian composer, violinist, organist, choirmaster and teacher. He counted Gluck among his students, and was highly regarded by younger composers including Johann Christian Bach
-- Sammartini, G. - 20. Sonate en trio, for 2 flutes & continuo in B minor, Op.1/6: (Allegro)
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (4 January 1710 – 16 March 1736) was an Italian composer, violinist and organist. He studied in Naples and worked as a Kapellmeister in Naples and Rome. Pergolesi was an important representative of what was later called the Neapolitan School and played a leading role in the rise of Italian comic opera (opera buffa) in the 18th century.
-- Teresa Stich-Randall, Elisabeth Hongen, Anton Heiller, Vienna State Opera Orchestra & Mario Rossi - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat mater, p.77: I. Stabat mater dolorosa
Domenico Cimarosa (17 December 1749 – 11 January 1801) was an Italian composer.
-- Vienna State Opera Orchestra , Andre Lardrot & Felix Prohaska - Cimarosa: Oboe Concerto, I. Introduction: Larghetto
Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer. Over a period of twenty years (1810-1829) he composed forty operas.
-- Henry Adolph: Philharmonia Slavonica - Rossini: L'Italiana In Algeri – Overture
Alessandro Parisotti (24 July 1853 – 4 April 1913)
was an Italian composer and music editor.
In his collection, Parisotti attributed the song "Se tu m'ami" to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, but due to the fact that no early manuscripts of this song have been found, scholars now believe that Parisotti composed the piece himself. The lyrics for the song are taken from a collection called "Di canzonette e di cantate librue due" by Paolo Rolli, published in London in 1727. [1]
-- Tania Kross - Se tu m'ami
Respighi (9 July 1879 – 18 April 1936) was an Italian composer of the first half of the twentieth century. After studying at the music lyceum in Bologna (violin, viola and composition), he went to St. Petersburg, where he played for several years at the Imperial Opera. There he Alfio Antico (Milan, November 22, 1956) is an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor.
-- Concerto A Cinque Op. 9-5
--"Silenzio d'amuri" is a beautiful song performed by L'Arpeggiata. The lyrics were written by Alfio Antico. The song can be found on the 2021 album La tarantella: Antidotum tarantulae. The text is in Sicilian, while the title (translated as "Love Silence")
Giovanni Allevi (Italian pronunciation: born 9 April 1969) is an Italian pianist and composer. His song "O Generosa" is the current theme tune of the top flight of Italian football, Serie A.
-- Giovanni Allevi - O generous
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