Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755-1818) - Concerto per il Violone obligato

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Composer: Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi (1755-1818)
Work: Concerto (in Re maggiore) per il Violone obligato
Performers: Lucio BuccareIIa (vioIone); l Musici

Concerto (in Re maggiore) per il Violone obligato
1. Allegro 0:00
2. Andante cantabile 6:53
3. Rondo 12:34

Drawing: Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) - An Italian family
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Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi [Capucci]
(Breno, Brescia, 1 August 1755 - Bergamo, 28 March 1818)

Italian violinist and composer. He studied the violin with Nazari, a pupil of Tartini, and composition with Bertoni. For some years after 1780 he was active in Venice as a performer in theatres and in S Marco. In 1796 he visited London and produced a popular ballet, La villageoise enlevée, which was published the following year. In 1805 he settled in Bergamo, where he was first violinist at S Maria Maggiore, professor of violin at the Istituto Musicale, and leader of the orchestra at Teatro Riccardi. He was highly regarded there both as a teacher and as a performer. All of Capuzzi’s known compositions were written during his Venetian years. With the exception of his London success, the ballets were designed for performance between the acts of operas and were widely known throughout Italy. His concertos and string quartets are conventionally pleasing in melody but suffer from extreme simplicity of texture. The rarity of Classical pieces for double bass has given Capuzzi’s Concerto for violone a small place in the modern repertory.