If you believe Charles Burney, the English music scholars and European travelers in terms of music, then was hard to determine what was miserable, the Italian harpsichords or the Italian harpsichordist in the 1770s. But an exception in his polemical verdict he would certainly have done with Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785), whom he visited in Venice in 1770. Galuppi was not only an excellent opera composer, but also devoted to keyboard instruments truly enchanting music that was like his Opere buffe Europe estimated. The famous Italian harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi has recorded for Accent nine of his sonatas on four different types of keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano) Italian origin - a successful and very entertaining vindication for Italian harpsichordist and their instruments.
2 Keyboard Sonata in D Major [Illy No. 46]: Allegro
3 Keyboard Sonata in D Major [Illy No. 46]: Andantino
4 Sonata Per Flauto, for Organ in B Flat Major [Illy No. 96]: Andante
5 Sonata Per Flauto, for Organ in B Flat Major [Illy No. 96]: [Senza Indicazione]
6 Keyboard Sonata in E minor, Op. 2/3 [Illy No. 3]
7 Keyboard Sonata in a Minor [Illy No. 66]: Siciliana
8 Keyboard Sonata in a Minor [Illy No. 66]: Allegro
9 Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38]: Sonata 3 in C minor. Allegro Moderato
10 Keyboard Sonata in C minor [Illy No. 38]: Sonata 3 in C minor. Allegretto
11 Sonata for Violin & Piano in a Minor Op. 1/3: Largo
12 Sonata for Violin & Piano in a Minor Op. 1/3: Allegro
13 Organ Sonata in G Major
14 Keyboard Sonata in a Flat Major [Illy No. 19]: Andantino
15 Keyboard Sonata in a Flat Major [Illy No. 19]: Allegro Assai
16 Keyboard Sonata in C Major [Illy No. 27]: Andante
17 Keyboard Sonata in C Major [Illy No. 27]: Allegro
18 Keyboard Sonata in C Major [Illy No. 27]: Allegro Assai
If you believe Charles Burney, the English music scholars and European travelers in terms of music, then was hard to determine what was miserable, the Italian harpsichords or the Italian harpsichordist in the 1770s. But an exception in his polemical verdict he would certainly have done with Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785), whom he visited in Venice in 1770. Galuppi was not only an excellent opera composer, but also devoted to keyboard instruments truly enchanting music that was like his Opere buffe Europe estimated. The famous Italian harpsichordist Luca Guglielmi has recorded for Accent nine of his sonatas on four different types of keyboard instruments (harpsichord, clavichord, organ and fortepiano) Italian origin - a successful and very entertaining vindication for Italian harpsichordist and their instruments.
