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• Late Baroque

(Fran-chas’-ko Ja-men-ya’-ne) 1687–1762 Italian composer and violinist Geminiani was born in Lucca and studied in Rome with Corelli. In 1714 he went to England, where he remained for the rest of his life. Geminiani established a fine reputation as a teacher, composer and violin virtuoso. His earliest concertos – arrangements of Corelli’s celebrated sonatas for violin and continuo (op. 5) ...

• Personalities
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• Composer
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• Late Baroque
• Theorist

, and remained influential until the turn of the twentieth century. Recommended Recording: Overtures, Il Fondamento (dir) Paul Dombrecht (Passacaille) Introduction | Late Baroque | Classical Personalities | Francesco Geminiani | Late Baroque | Classical ...

• Styles & Forms
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• Late Baroque

, sonatas were also written for instruments such as the oboe, flute and cello. Italian composers flourished at home (notably Vivaldi and Tartini) and abroad (Locatelli in Amsterdam, Geminiani in London). Sonatas for keyboard alone were written by Domenico Scarlatti and Marcello among others. The Italian sonata was influential in France too, where Rameau wrote sonatas accompanied by ...

• Performance
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• Late Baroque

, chamber and orchestral music became popular all over England in the eighteenth century. Handel performed at many of these concerts and his music, like that of Corelli and Geminiani, remained popular in England for many decades to come. One important promoter of such concerts was Johann Peter Salomon (1745–1815), himself a concert violinist. Salomon began staging subscription concerts ...

• Inside the Music
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• Late Baroque

of extravagant display into their violin writing. Later, composer-performers like Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643) on the harpsichord, Reincken and J. S. Bach on the organ, and Corelli, Geminiani, Vivaldi, Locatelli and Leclair on the violin, developed the virtuoso content of their music to previously unparalleled heights of sophistication. The chief vehicle for display in vocal ...

• Arts & Culture
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• Late Baroque

publications most frequently consulted by modern players as offering invaluable insight into the thinking of some performers of the time are The Art of Playing on the Violin (1751) by Geminiani and Versuch einer gründlichen Violinschule (‘An Attempt at Learning the Violin’, 1756) by Leopold Mozart (1719–87). The question is, do these publications reflect what Baroque string players were actually ...