Francesco Geminiani

Francesco Geminiani Xaverio (* December 3, 1687 ( baptized: December 5, 1687 ) in Lucca, † September 17, 1762 in Dublin) was an Italian composer and violinist.

Life

Francesco Geminiani was the fourth child of Antonio Giuliano Geminiani and Angela Geminiani to the world. The date of birth is not documented, but the custom to baptize the child after the saint 's birthday, place December 3, Day of the Santo Francisco Xaverio, near ( Careri 1993, p 2). He received his first music lessons from his father. The violin playing, he might have been taught Carlo Ambrogio Lonati (or Lunati ) and later in Rome, he at least had close contacts with Arcangelo Corelli, he had composition lessons among others Alessandro Scarlatti. From December 1706 to March 1707, he was given the position of first violinist at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples. After this appointment he took up in 1709 the position of his father in the Cappella Palatina in Lucca. For the period up to his trip to London, there are no further instructions.

In 1714 he traveled to London, under the patronage of the 3rd Duke of Essex he occupied himself with teaching and composing. Successful concert tours to Ireland in the 1730s cemented his reputation as a virtuoso.

The English music historian Charles Burney, according to the publication of the Concerti Grossi Op 3 strengthened in 1733 Geminiani's name: "put him at the head of all then living master." In these concerti grossi Geminiani 's violin sonatas of Corelli worked into quite independent manner, followed by Burney's word of Geminiani's "musical art of cooking " prop.

With Georg Friedrich Händel he performed his violin concertos at the royal court to London. After a stay in Paris ( 1732), he decided to settle in Dublin. His professional activities have fluctuated between the unsuccessful attempt of giving out a music magazine, the virtuosity, composing music theory works and trade with paintings by important Italian painter, as well as his own. From 1759, he was concertmaster at Charles Coote, later Earl of Bellamont in Dublin.

Among his pupils were next to his patron Charles Coote, Charles Avison, Robert Bremner (c. 1713-1789 ), Henry Carey, Michael Christian Festing, Matthew Dubourg, John Worgan ( 1724-1790 ), soprano Cecilia Young ( 1711-1789 ) and other.

Works

Geminiani's contemporaries praised always his " harmonic craftsmanship ". The music historian Hawkins described his Modulatorik as groundbreaking, as Geminiani the rule conformity provisions (see General Bass ) the transition completely made ​​from one key to the other in mind. A good example of harmonic modulation capability is the adagio of the third concert in the chromatic run chords merge.

  • Op.1 12 sonatas f Violin (s ) & B.C.
  • Op.2 6 Concerti Grossi
  • Op.3 6 Concerti Grossi
  • Op.4 6 Concerti Grossi
  • Op.4/II 6 sonatas f violin & B.C.
  • Op.5 12 Concerti Grossi by Arcangelo Corelli's violin sonatas op.5
  • Op.5/II 6 sonatas f violin & B.C.
  • Op.7 6 Concerti Grossi
  • Op.8 Rules for playing in key
  • Op.9 The Art of Playing on the Violin, "The art of violin playing ", a first of its kind educational publication from 1751 in London
  • Op.10 Guida Armonica o Dizionario Armonico (undated )
  • The Art of Accompaniament op.11 (1756 )
  • O.op. La Foresta Incantata
  • 26 Violin Concertos
  • 24 Trio Sonatas for two violins and basso continuo
  • Some solo sonatas
  • A course book " The art of accompaniment with harpsichord, organ and other keyboard instruments ."
  • Sonatas for violin and basso continuo
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