Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775)
Giovanni Battista Sammartini, main exponent of the eighteenth century Milanese instrumental school, was not only a reference for local musicians, but also enjoyed international fame; he was “the most European character of the Milanese scene of the time” (G. Pestelli, 1982).
A prominent figure in a complex era, witness and advocate of those stylistic and formal metamorphoses that marked the gradual transition from the late Baroque, heavily influenced by the violinistic school, to the mature gallant style anticipating the classicism by reaching an idiomatic accomplishment.
The award-winning harpsichordist Susanna Piolanti performs this unpublished collection of sonatas mostly edited in London during the eighteenth century, in which the search for and the consolidation of a new language never ends: “I will, I will, but my harpsichord will kill me”, senior Sammartini answers to his customers’ requests. After all, the work of a composer always starts from the keyboard.
Tracklist
Alberti, Agrell. Never before Printed. Book I. London Printed for I. Walsh [1761]
1-3. Sonata in Sol Maggiore [a] 10:49
4-5. Sonata in Mib Maggiore 11:08
A Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord compos’d by Sig.r Jozzi, S.t Martini of Milan,
Alberti, Agrell. Never before Printed. Book II. London Printed for I. Walsh [1762]
6-7. Sonata in Re Maggiore 7:33
A Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord compos’d by Sig.r Jozzi, S.t Martini of Milan,
Alberti, Agrell. Never before Printed. Book III. London Printed for I. Walsh [1764]
8-10. Sonata in Sol Maggiore 7:43
11-12. Sonata in Do Maggiore 7:27
Six select Sonatas for the Harpsichord or Forte Piano Composed by Galuppi, Mazzinghi,
Martini & Jozzi. London : C. & S. Thompson [1765]
13-15. Sonata in Sib Maggiore 7:52
16-17. Sonata in Do Maggiore 5:56
Manoscritto del sec.XVIII nella collezione Waldstein “Sonata a Cembalo solo del Signor
Battista S. Martino”
18. Sonata in Sol Maggiore [b] 5:29
- Composer: Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-1775)
- Performers: Susanna Piolanti, harpsichord
- Musicological Text: Sara Elisa Stangalino
- Historical Period: Classicism
- Code: TC 701902
- Edition: October 2017
- Barcode: 8007194106138
- Set: 1
- Total duration: 01:05:00
- Notes: World Premiere Recording · Historical Instruments
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