Giordani: 6 Sonatas Op.4

Ruggeri, Marco;
Uinskyte, Lina

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Naples-born, Tommaso Giordani (c. 1730-1806) travelled across Europe with his artistically talented family, which formed a small opera troupe of its own. While Tommaso was still a teenager, the Giordanis gave performances in Ancona, Graz, Frankfurt and Salzburg, and were eventually invited to perform as part of the 1753-4 season of sundry entertainments at the theatre in Covent Garden which was later rebuilt as the Royal Opera House. A decade later they settled in Dublin, where Tommaso’s career as a composer got off to an inauspicious start with an ‘Italianized’ version of The Beggars’ Opera which did not go down well with audiences who were quite content with John Gay’s bawdy original. However, in subsequent years he produced several more comic operas which fared much better, and by the early 1770s Giordani was very active with the Italian Opera at the King's Theatre. It is from this period that this set of six agreeable chamber sonatas is dated, being published in 1773.

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13-11-2019

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