Sonata for violin, cello and basso continuo by Giuseppe Torelli Cello - Sheet Music
By Giuseppe TorelliA little known manuscript in the British Library contains one of only two known sonatas by him for violin, obbligato cello and continuo. In this rare type of sonata the cello becomes a full partner to the violin (which one could liken to a second violin playing an octave lower than usual) rather than an adjunct to the continuo line. The four movement sonata in A in London, which the immigrant musician Johann Christoph Pepusch may have acquired from Torelli in Berlin just before journeying to England in 1697, is an exciting piece offering much opportunity for virtuosic display, often in dialogue form, by both violin and cello. One realizes, reading or playing this work, how much Bach and other Germans owed to Torelli, of whose inventive music they had knowledge a good ten or twenty years before Vivaldi arrived on the scene.
Details
Summary
- Instrument:
- Cello Violin Basso Continuo
- Genres:
- Baroque Period
- Composers:
- Giuseppe Torelli
- Publishers:
- Edition HH Music Publishers
- ISBN:
- 9790708041894
- Format:
- Score Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Physical
- Musical forms:
- Sonata
- Artist:
- Giuseppe Torelli
- Usages:
- School and Community
- Size:
- 8.27 x 11.69 inches
- Shipping Weight:
- 0.48 pounds
Detailed Description
SKU: HH.HH116-FSP
Composed by Giuseppe Torelli. Edited by Michael Talbot. Violin, Cello & Basso Continuo. Baroque. Full score and parts. Duration 7:00. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH116-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH116-FSP).ISBN 9790708041894. 8.27 x 11.69 inches.
A little known manuscript in the British Library contains one of only two known sonatas by him for violin, obbligato cello and continuo. In this rare type of sonata the cello becomes a full partner to the violin (which one could liken to a second violin playing an octave lower than usual) rather than an adjunct to the continuo line. The four movement sonata in A in London, which the immigrant musician Johann Christoph Pepusch may have acquired from Torelli in Berlin just before journeying to England in 1697, is an exciting piece offering much opportunity for virtuosic display, often in dialogue form, by both violin and cello. One realizes, reading or playing this work, how much Bach and other Germans owed to Torelli, of whose inventive music they had knowledge a good ten or twenty years before Vivaldi arrived on the scene.
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- Publisher:
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