Pescetti: Complete Keyboard Music

Bottini, Paolo

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Giovanni Battista Pescetti was another product of the astonishing Venetian industry in fine musicians during the 17th and 18th centuries. Having studied with Antonio Lotti, organist at St Mark’s and author of the famous Crucifixus, he struck up a friendship with a fellow pupil, Baldassare Galuppi, whose harpsichord music has already featured on Brilliant Classics (BC95253). The two men wrote operas together in their 20s, before Pescetti impressed London audiences as a harpsichordist. In 1736 he became director of Opera of the Nobility, which was the rival company to the one run by Handel in the Haymarket. The company collapsed – who could rival Handel? – but Pescetti remained in London and probably only returned to Venice in 1747, where he finally attained the long-coveted position of organist at St Mark’s in 1762, four years before his death.

CD x 2

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Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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