Carlo Tessarini

Carlo Tessarini (* 1690 in Rimini, † after December 15, 1766 Amsterdam ) was an Italian violinist and composer of the late Baroque.

Life

Carlo Tessarini came from a family of sailors. Little of his childhood and his studies known to some sources suggest that he, possibly as a pupil of Antonio Vivaldi, received his musical training in the Venetian setting. First mention was Carlo Tessarini as violinist at St. Mark's Basilica. Until 1731, he was music director ( " maestro dei concerti ") of the " Ospedale del Derelitti ", one of the four orphanages in Venice; Here he composed his Concerto à cinque op.1. 1731, he got a job in the " cappella musicale " of the Cathedral of Urbino, which he held until 1743, although he was temporarily 1730-1737 Kapellmeister of Cardinal Schrattenbach in Brno. 1740 took over the management of a Tessarini theater orchestra in Rome, which he did., After the death of Pope Clement XII had to give up.

After 1747 Tessarini was in Rome and Naples, and later in countries north of the Alps. His concert tours took him to Paris, Brussels, Nijmegen, Groningen and Frankfurt am Main. From 1766 his tracks in Arnhem lose. Carlo Tessarini was not only a well-known violinist in many parts of Europe, but also a celebrated composer, as numerous press articles show of its time. He wrote operas, sonatas for violin, concertos for one or more instruments and symphonies.

Work

Tessarini started relatively late with the publication of his compositions, so some it is not definitively be attributed. His later works clearly show a devotion to the galant style. As a music theorist, he published important instructions to rhythms, to the teaching of ornaments, for execution of cadences and to learn the violin playing.

• Op.1 12 Sonate a violino e basso (Venice, 1729 )
• Op.2 Il Maestro e Discepolo, Divertimenti da camera a due violini ( Urbino, 1740)
• Op.3 Allettamenti da camera a violino solo e violoncello (Rome, 1740)
• A treatise Gramatica di musica. Insegna il modo facile e breve per bene impre di sonare il violino ..... (Rome, 1741)
• Op.4 6 Trattimenti a violino e basso (Rome, 1742)
• Op.5 5 Sonata a tre da camera con due violini e basso continuo (Paris, 1743)
• Op.6 Be trio a due violini e basso (Paris, 1744)
• Op.7 6 Symphony a due violini e basso (Paris, 1744)
• 12 Concerti à 5 con violino obligato (Paris, 1745)
• Op.8 6 Sonate a solo e basso violini (Paris, 1747 )
• Op.9 6 Sonata da camera e chiesa a due violini e baso con pastorella (Paris, 1747 )
• A treatise Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre par mois de théorie dans un temps à jouer le violon, divisé en trois classes, avec des deux leçons violons par gradation (Liège, 1750)
• Op.10 Contrasto armonico a tre violini e basso con sui rinforzi (Paris, 1753)
• Sonate a violino op.14 Be ò flauto traversière e cemabalo (Paris, 1748)
• Op.15 Trattimento musicale was duetti a due violini o pardesus de viole cenza basso (Paris, 1750)
• Op.16 6 Sonate a violino solo violoncello cimbalo (Paris, 1753)
• Op.19 Grandes Ouverture's
• Op.20 Grandes Sinfonies
• L'Arte di nuova modulacione. Capricio musicale a partial VII (Paris, 1762)
• Pantomime a due violini o sia pardesus de viola o due violoncelli (Paris, 1763)