Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli

Giuseppe Torelli (April 22, 1658–February 8, 1709) was an Italian violist and violinist, pedagogue and composer, who ranks with Arcangelo Corelli among the developers of the Baroque concerto and concerto grosso.Fact|date=February 2007

Torelli is most remembered for his contributions to the development of the instrumental concerto (Newman 1972, p. 142), especially concerti grossi and the solo concerto, for strings and continuo, as well as being the most prolific Baroque composer for trumpets (Tarr 1974).

Torelli was born in Verona. It is not known with whom he studied violin though it has been speculated that he was a pupil of Leonardo Brugnoli or Bartolomeo Laurenti, but it is certain that he studied composition with Giacomo Antonio Perti (Schnoebelen and Vanscheeuwijk 2001). On June 27, 1684, at the age of 26, he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica as "suonatore di violino" (Schnoebelen and Vanscheeuwijk 2001). By 1698 he was "maestro di concerto" at the court of Georg Friedrich II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, where he conducted the orchestra for "Le pazzie d'amore e dell'interesse", an "idea drammatica" composed by the "maestro di cappella", the castrato Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, before leaving for Vienna in December 1699 (Schnoebelen and Vanscheeuwijk 2001). He returned to Bologna sometime before February (1701), when he is listed as a violinist in the newly re-formed "cappella musicale" at San Petronio, directed by his former composition teacher Perti (Schnoebelen and Vanscheeuwijk 2001).

He died in Bologna in 1709, where his manuscripts are conserved in the San Petronio archives.Giuseppe's brother, Felice Torelli, was a Bolognese painter of modest reputation, who went on to be a founding member of the Accademia Clementina. The most notable amongst Giuseppe's many pupils was Francesco Manfredini.

elected works

*10 "Sonate a 3", with Basso Continuo, op. 1. (1686)
*12 "Concertino per camera" for Violin and Cello, op. 4. (1688)
*12 "Concerti musicali a quattro", op. 6. (1698)
*12 "Concerti grossi con una pastorale per il Santissimo Natale", op. 8. (1709)
*More than 30 concertos for 1 to 4 trumpets, including a "Sinfonia à 4", composed after 1702 (Tarr 1974) and unpublished during his lifetime, which is a concerto for four trumpets, with an orchestra requiring a minimum of four oboes, two bassoons, trombone, timpani, four violins, two violas, four cellos, two double basses, and continuo.

ources

*Bukofzer, Manfred F. 1947. "Music in the Baroque Era: From Monteverdi to Bach". New York: W. W. Norton.
*Newman, William S. 1972. "The Sonata in the Baroque Era". New York: W. W. Norton.
*Schnoebelen, Ann, and Marc Vanscheeuwijk. 2001. "Torelli, Giuseppe." "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed. S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
*Tarr, Edward H. 1974. Unpaginated editorial notes to his edition of Giuseppe Torelli, "Sinfonia a 4, G. 33, in C major". London: Musica Rara.

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