Lodovico Giustini
Lodovico Giustini ( born December 12, 1685 in Pistoia, † February 7, 1743 ) was an Italian composer and organist.
There is only little is known about the life and work of Lodovico Giustini. He came from a family of musicians and was in his home town as organist in several churches (from 1734 also in the Cathedral ) operates. During a prolonged absence of Pistoia in the summer of 1732 are in the nearby capital of Tuscany, Florence, the sonata da cimbalo di piano e forte detta volgarmente di Martelletti, op 1, as commissioned by the Brazilian priest and diplomat João de Seixas da Fonseca Borges emerged. In this sonata collection is the first surviving compositions, which were written explicitly for the developed by Bartolomeo Cristofori in the late 17th century fortepiano ( fortepiano ) and dedicated to the younger brother of the Portuguese King João V, Don Antonio de Braganca, were. The sonatas of this collection of piano music, his single, suite -like cycles of the type of church sonata with four to five sentences in which, in spite of the traditional sequence of movements, the new opportunities of the pianoforte, to determine just by pressing the volume and emphasis are - in contrast to the contemporary compositions for harpsichord, come into play. With appropriate interpretation encounter Giustinis compositions on a door to a new era in the history of music, in which the emotions are mediated primarily through the differentiation of the volume and so far make as expressionless tone sequences perceived socially acceptable. So this is not about piano sonatas of the type of the late 18th century or Domenico Scarlatti, even if the " Essercizi by gravicembalo " by Domenico Scarlatti ( 1738/1739 appeared ) not by the new possibilities of musical language in Giustinis compositions on the Portuguese court unaffected have remained. At the reception of the sonatas at the Portuguese court, the Borges da Fonseca were presented as a gift by João de Seixas, nothing is handed down.
Werkausgaben
A facsimile edition of the first edition was released by the publishing house Editions Minkoff liquidated in 2010 in Geneva. Publisher is also a three -volume edition in a modern print with corrections of the errors contained in the original by Dominique Ferran ( Drake Mabry Publishing, San Diego, California). The obvious error in the printing plates from 1732 make it seem doubtful that the pressure before the release was actually seen by Giustini.
Recordings
Audio recordings of the piano sonatas by Lodovico Giustini have been scarce, but in March 2010, a complete recording of all 12 sonatas on the Cristofori replica of Kerstin Schwarz by Andrea Coen (Brilliant Classics 5028421940218 ) was published and since June 2010, there are the sonata I, II, VII, VIII, X and XI with Wolfgang Brunner on the Thiemann - replica of a Cristofori fortepiano ( cpo 2458301 ). The first movement of the G minor Sonata of Brunner 's recording can be viewed as a video on YouTube along with a representation of the Cristofori mechanics. Each 5 sonatas by Edwin Good in 2008 on a replica of the 1720 Instrument of Bartolomeo Cristofori ( www.arpicimbalo.com ) and Cremilde Rosado Fernandes on a 1996 Antunes fortepiano ( NUM Numerica 1047) published. A live recording of the sonatas I and X with Wolfgang Brunner of the " days of early music " in Herne in 1996 to a collective recording of the event by the Cultural Department of the City of Herne ("... flow right to the Danube " ) is now out of print. A recording of the fifth sonata by Luca Guglielmi found on a compilation CD from 2002, which is dedicated to Bartolomeo Cristofori ( Stradivarius STR 33608 ). Out is a recording that was recorded by Mieczyslaw Horszowski 1980 on a fortepiano. It contains the sonatas I, IV, VII, X, and is on the Titanic Records label under the order Ti -78 appeared on two LP.