by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Giuseppe T,utini (1692-1770) had a long an illustrious career as a violinist, composer, teacher inventor, and theorist. In his early years, he apparently studied law at Padua University, but hurriedly left Padua in 1713 when there was disapproval of his marriage by...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
The well-known Italian composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713) spent his early years in Germany and France as a virtuoso violinist before returning to his native country in 1685. Corelli’s influence is based on three instrumental genres: the sonata,...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
What is the World to Me or Was frag ich nach der Welt is an arrangement based on two cantatas of J. S. Bach. The music itself is from Cantata 129, Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott, the fifth movement (chorale for chorus and instruments), written for Trinity Sunday,...
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Transcriptions from St. Matthew Passion and Cantatas 65 and 175
by barbarah_admin | Oct 9, 2021
Maria Hester Park (1760-1813) was an English composer and teacher. Not much information is available about her early life, but she appeared in harpsichord and piano concerts before she married Thomas Park. She was active in composition from about 1795 to 1811. The...