Bartolomeo Campagnoli

Bartolomeo Campagnoli ( born September 10, 1751 Cento (Emilia -Romagna), † November 6, 1827 in Neustrelitz ) was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor of classical music.

Life

Bartolomeo Campagnoli received his first violin lessons from his great-uncle, then by Alberto dall'Occa, a pupil of Antonio Lolli. From 1763 he studied in Modena at Don Paolo Gustarobba, a pupil of Tartini. Campagnoli received in 1764 a place in the orchestra in his hometown. Inspired by the game of the violinist Franz Lamotte, at a concert in Cento, he followed this up in 1768 to Venice and Padua. 1770 Campagnoli was successful concerts in Rome and Faenza. As he already had respectable success as a soloist, he settled in Florence and became a pupil of Pietro Nardini, who influenced him considerably. Following a stint at the Teatro Argentina in Rome in 1776, he received a job at the Prince-Bishop of Freising. In 1787 he toured through Germany, Poland and Scandinavia. In Stockholm he became a full member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Then Campagnoli was in the service of various German principalities, so in 1797 the Duke of Courland, before he took over the management of the Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig after his death in 1797. In Leipzig he was taken on December 6, 1808 in the Masonic Lodge Minerva of the three palm trees. In 1801 he traveled to Paris, where he made the acquaintance of Rodolphe Kreutzer, whose playing impressed him very much. In 1816 he stayed for training purposes with his two daughters, the singers were, in Italy, in returning these employments were at the opera in Frankfurt. In his Leipzig period, Campagnoli increasingly devoted to the work of educational works. 1820 moved to Hanover Campagnoli and accompanied the fall of 1826 his daughters to Neustrelitz, where, however, he no longer took an active part in the musical life and about a year later died of old age.

He gained a great reputation by its demanding violin technique in the double handles and through its manicured lecture, this documented contemporaries such as Louis Spohr and Ernst Ludwig Gerber. Campagnolis principal merit lies in the composition of violin pedagogical works and the introduction of the bow hold with the first phalanx, he influenced hereby instrumental play the violin.

His tomb, a strung with four strings lyre and a golden laurel wreath at the old cemetery in Neustrelitz was scrapped after 1945.

Works (selection)

• More than 40 joints and the Divertimento for Solo Violin.
• Concertos for Flute and Orchestra op.3
• Duets for Flute and Violin op.6
• Duos for Violin Op. 7 and Op 9
• Violin Concerto op.15
• Duos for Violin and Viola op.16
• 41 Caprices for Solo Viola, Op 22

Textbooks

• " L'art d' inventer à l' Improviste of fantaisies et cadences ", Op 17 ( improvisation teaching)
• The Violin School " Metodo per violino " Op 21 (1797 )
• Extended edition of Op 21 " Nouvelle méthode de la mécanique progressive du jeu du violon " (1824 ).