Domenico Gallo
Domenico Gallo (* around 1730 in Venice, † in the 18th or 19th century) was an Italian composer and violinist.
Life
About Gallos life is as good as nothing is known. François -Joseph Fétis wrote in 1837 in his Biographie universelle des Musiciens et bibliography générale de la musique:
" GALLO ( Dominique ), an important composer and violinist, born in Venice about 1730, wrote much church music and became known violin sonatas and symphonies successful. All works remain the manuscript. In the old Breitkopf range in Leipzig, there are three symphonies by him for two violins, viola and bass (see the notes to the Breitkopf thematic catalog of 1767 ). "
Fétis ' sources are unknown; the style of Gallos compositions can, the words " born about 1730 ", however, appear credible. For the sometimes -to-find indication of the year of death " about 1775 " is not aware of any source document.
A Neapolitan musician Gallo family of the 18th century (mainly Pietro Antonio Gallo, * 1695-1700; † Naples, 1775) seems to have no relation to Domenico Gallo. - Another Domenico Gallo from Parma wrote in the 17th century a Trattenimento sopra il musical cello ( "Musical conversation about the cello ").
Works
Contrary Fétis ' assertion several compositions by Gallo appeared in print:
- 6 Sonatas for 2 Violins and Basso Continuo (Venice nd)
- 6 Sonatas for 2 Flutes and Basso continuo (London 1755? )
- 6 Sonatas for Violin and Basso continuo: Be sonate a due / Violino, e Violloncello [sic ], o Harpsichord / composte dal Signor Domenico Gallo ( Venice nd)
- 12 Trio Sonatas for two violins and basso continuo (London 1780), under the name of Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Twelve Sonatas for Two Violins and a Bass or Orchestra to compos'd by Gio. Batt.a Pergolesi. Author of the Stabat Mater [ The words " or at Orchestra" means that all voices can be occupied also in groups. ] Three editions to 1795. At this pressure su
Handwritten further trio sonatas and sacred music have survived. In some works it is debatable whether they are attributable to Domenico Gallo from Venice or from Parma.
The pressure of 1780
1780 brought the London publisher Robert Brenner out twelve trio sonatas, which he attributed to the 1736 late composer Giovanni Battista Pergolesi. Pergolesi was still in 1780 a highly -renowned composer; Printing of neuaufgefundenen compositions that could be attributed to him, promised high turnover, and therefore several hundred not derived from his own compositions were in the decades after his death published under his name. Already several critics of the 18th century, including Charles Burney (1789 ), questioned the authenticity of the burner published trio sonatas. Nevertheless, they were included in the complete edition of Pergolesi's works. Multiple pieces were called in the musicological literature as early examples of sonata form; this, however, always believing they were from a 1736 late composer.
Only in the 1940s as part of the systematic study of the Pergolesi fakes some of the trio sonatas were identified as safe as originating from Gallo by comparison with manuscripts in Italian libraries. Because of the unity of style and compositional quality Gallo is now regarded as the author of all twelve sonatas. However, as the works of a composer born about 1730, they can no longer be described as a revolutionary forerunner of later notation, they are "the work of a skilled composer who wrote in gallant style of 1750ger and 1760ger years."
Stravinsky's Pulcinella edits in
1919-1920 composed Igor Stravinsky 's ballet Pulcinella " based on themes by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi ". The composition consists in large parts of orchestrations and arrangements free of sentences that Sergei Diaghilev from various sources for Stravinsky had had to write off, and of which it was believed, Pergolesi had composed them. Stravinsky wrote of the work: " [ ... ] it was a very risky business, these scattered fragments infuse new life and to unite the many disparate pieces into a whole, all the more as it was the music of a composer whom I have been almost always tenderly loved. ". Among the 18 sets of ballet go seven on the burner pressure by Gallos Trio Sonatas back.