Sonata (Duet) by Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was one of the principal Italian composers of comic operas. He began his career with the comic opera Le Stravaganze del conte, From 1784 to 1787 Cimarosa lived in various Italian cities, composing both serious and comic operas. Cimarosa was a prolific composer whose music abounds …
O Bone Jesu by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of …
Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707-1791) Pietro Domenico Paradisi (also Pier Domenico Paradies) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled “Toccata in A”. A reviewer of a modern edition of his sonatas, all first edited by the composer, noted in passing “Paradies (never Paradisi, it seems)” …
Largo from Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination …
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Aria by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. He invigorated musical life in Stuttgart. His contemporaries praised his chamber works. The music of Brescianello shows great sense of melody, profound harmonic imagination combined with strong rhythmic element so typical to Italian school of the time.
Scherzo by Antonio Brescianello Giuseppe (1690-1758) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. He invigorated musical life in Stuttgart. His contemporaries praised his chamber works. The music of Brescianello shows great sense of melody, profound harmonic imagination combined with strong rhythmic element so typical to Italian school of the time.
Opus 13 No 5 In E Major Minuet by Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805) Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet …
Adagio In G Minor by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.
Adagio by Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.
Crepuscolo Sul Mare by Piero Umiliani (1926-2001) Piero Umiliani was an Italian composer of film scores, and is most famous for his song “Mah Nà Mah Nà”. Umiliani was born in Florence, Tuscany. Like many of his Italian colleagues at that time, he composed the scores for many exploitation films in the 1960s and 1970s, …
