Fernando Valenti

Fernando Valenti ( born December 4, 1926 in New York City; † September 6, 1990 in Red Bank / New Jersey) was an American harpsichordist.

Valenti studied piano with José Iturbi and then at Yale University harpsichord with Ralph Kirkpatrick. Since 1951 he was professor of harpsichord at the Juilliard School of Music in New York. In addition, he taught, among others at the Cleveland Institute and the California Institute of the Arts.

Valenti became famous especially with its interpretation of the virtuoso harpsichord sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. In 1978, he played 100 of these sonatas on five consecutive nights at Carnegie Hall. His repertoire included compositions by George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as modern composers such as Elliott Carter, Arnold Schoenberg and George Gershwin.

In concerts Valenti appeared with conductors such as Bruno Walter, Serge Koussevitzky, Fritz Reiner and Pablo Casals. On record he played among others 330 Scarlatti's sonatas and Bach's Goldberg Variations and his Brandenburg Concertos on ( with Leopold Stokowski ). He also published two books: The Harpsichord: A Dialogue for Beginners (1982 ) and A Performer's Guide to the Keyboard Partitas of JS Bach ( 1990).

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  • Bach Cantatas - Fernando Valenti
  • New York Times September 8, 1990 - Obituary for Fernando Valenti
  • Harpsichordist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1926
  • Died in 1990
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