Locatelli: Concerti Grossi Op. 1, Nos. 7-12

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Cat No: 8553446

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099444620

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: LOCATELLI

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Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695 -1764)Concerti grossi, Op.1, Nos. 7 -12Concerto grosso No.7 in F major Concerto grosso No.8 inF minor (Christmas Concerto)Concerto grosso No.9 inD majorConcerto grosso No.10 inC majorConcerto grosso No.11 inC minorConcerto grosso No.12 inG minor A native of Bergamo, PietroLocatelli was born in 1695 and started his career there as a violinist at the church of S Maria Maggiore, a positionhe left in 1711 in order to study in Rome. There it is suggestedthat he took lessons from Corelli, a leading figure in the music of the city,still living in the palace of Cardinal Ottoboni, the Cancelleria,which he left the following year, as his health failed. Locatelli had a clear debfto the tradition established by Corelli, but it has been doubted that he wasever his pupil The possibility has been suggested that Locatelli studied withthe Florentine Giuseppe Valentini, presumed to have been a former pupil ofCorelli, a younger man, who, like Locatelli in later years, also included theviola in the concertino of his concerti grossi of 17l0. It was with Valentinithat he travelled about this time. His career as a performer continued in Italy, with thepatronage of Cardinal Ottoboni and of the Habsburg Governor of Mantua, PrincePhilip of Hessen-Darmstadt, who had given Vivaldi the title of maestro dicappella da camera, a position enjoyed largely in absentia. Similarly Locatellibecame virtuoso da camera to the Prince, suggesting a similar lack ofcontinuing obligation in Mantua, which he must, atleast, have visited for a time. Outside Italy he won anincreasing reputation for himself during visits to the Bavarian court and to Berlin, the secondin the entourage of the Elector of Saxony, August the Strong, employer of Vivaldi'spupil Pisendel and Veracini in a distinguished musical establishment. In1729 Locatelli settled in Amsterdam, where he spent thegreater part of the rest of his life. Here, while continuing in his professionas a performer, as occasion demanded, he gave his attention to music forgentleman amateurs and to teaching. He collaborated with the importantpublisher Le Cene and was granted a licence to publish his own chamber music.He enjoyed a position of some importance in the cultural life of the city, whilehis library is evidence of his own wide interests. His business activitiesincluded the importation and sale of Italian violin strings, perhaps throughthe agency of his mistress, widow of an Italian dealer in Amsterdam. As aviolinist he continued to amaze, if not always to delight, those who heard him,as Vivaldi did in Venice. Evidence of his virtuosity is seen in theremarkable L 'arte del violino, a set of twelve concerti with 24Caprices, published in Amsterdam in 1733, the latter making technical demandson the player comparable to those presented a hundred years later by Paganiniin his own Caprices. Like Corelli, his master, if not his teacher,Locatelli wrote principally for strings, with the exception of his Opus
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