Adagio by Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)
Benedetto Marcello was a Venetian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Marcello composed a diversity of music including considerable church music, oratorios, hundreds of solo cantatas, duets, sonatas, concertos and sinfonias. Marcello was a younger contemporary of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice and his instrumental music enjoys a Vivaldian flavor. As a composer, Marcello was best known in his lifetime and is now still best remembered for his Estro poetico-armonico (Venice, 1724–1727), a musical setting for voices, figured bass (a continuo notation), and occasional soloist instruments of the first fifty Psalms, as paraphrased in Italian by his friend G. Giustiniani. They were much admired by Charles Avison, who with John Garth brought out an edition with English words (London, 1757).
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Adagio per due chitare dal concerto per Oboe e orchestra. Renaissance. Time Signature 3/4. Key of E Minor. 41 measures. 3 pages.