Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798) - Sinfonia a più Strumenti (c.1775)

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Composer: Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798)
Work: Sinfonia (Si bemolle maggiore) a più Strumenti (c.1775)
Performers: Neue Düssеldorfеr Hofmusik; Mary Utіgеr (conductor)

Sinfonia a più Strumenti (c.1775)
1. Allegro brillante 0:00
2. Andante 5:33
3. Minuetto 9:05
4. Presto 12:13

Painting: Johann Friedrich August Tischbein (1750-1812) - Italienische Landleute unterhalten sich am Seeufer mit Spiel und Tanz, im Hintergrund hohe Berge
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Painting: Italian (Piedmontese) School - Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798)
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(Giulio) Gaetano (Gerolamo) Pugnani [Pugnano, Pugniani]
(Turin, 27 November 1731 - Turin, 15 July 1798)

Italian violinist and composer. Trained under Giovanni Battista Somis and Giuseppe Tartini, at the age of ten he began his career as a second violinist in the orchestra at the Teatro Regio, Turin, though his official appointment was delayed until 19 April 1748. Two years later he made his debut at the Concerts spirituels in Paris. Was then when 'The Mercure de France' wrote: ‘the connoisseurs insist that they have never heard a violinist superior to this virtuoso’. From 1767 to 1769 he served as conductor at the King’s Theatre in London, where his first opera, 'Nanetta e Lubino' (1769), met with success. He also appeared in concerts with Johann Christian Bach and other prominent musicians. In 1770 he became first violinist of the king’s music in Turin, a post his teacher Somis had held and which included the leadership of the Teatro Regio orchestra. His most famous pupil was Giovanni Battista Viotti, with whom he toured Europe as far as Russia in the 1780s and 1790s, thereby becoming the direct link between the early violin styles of Tartini and the later international style represented by Viotti. His last foreign journey took him to Vienna, where on 22 March 1796 he conducted his orchestral suite based on Goethe’s Werther. As a composer, he was known for his dramatic and harmonically adventurous works. These include eight operas, the mentioned 'Werther', six concert arias, an oratorio, three cantatas, 19 symphonies, eight quintets, five violin concertos, six string quartets, 45 trios, 18 duets, 20 violin sonatas and numerous dances.