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Medici Harpsichord Book

Medici Harpsichord Book Classical

Medici Harpsichord Book

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This delightful collection of rare harpsichord works by Aapo Hakkinen also includes world premiere recordings of keyboard music by Prince Ferdinando de Medici and Giovanni de Macque. The Library of the Florence Conservatory of Music contains a little manuscript book, which has until now remained almost entirely overlooked. Handsomely bound in leather with guilded edges, the manuscript names no composer, but the gold embossed emblem on the cover points to a Grand Duke of Tuscany as its one-time owner. But the other plausible candidate is Prince Ferdinando de Medici (1673-1713), known to have studied both composition and harpsichord. Inside are fifteen pieces grouped into four suites and among them are several preludes, toccatas that passacaglias, and a number of tuneful dance pieces, all called Aria alla francese. presented here in this delightful collection of harpsichord music. This disc also features the works of Giovanni Battista Martini, who was scarcely less celebrated than Luigi Rossi had been a century earlier. Manuel Blasco de Nebra and Antonio Soler take us far from Martini s sophisticated counterpoint and Bolognese polish to a proud and fiery music. Soler s Fandango shows little of the composure one might expect from a scholar-priest. Inspired by the virtuoso dance improations of Andalusian gypsy guitar players, it is one of the more remarkable compositions of the entire eighteenth-century keyboard literature.
Product details
Release Date:
1970-01-01
Publication Date:
1970-01-01
Publisher:
Deux-Elles (Codaex Deutschland)
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
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