Pietro Castrucci

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Pietro Castrucci (* 1679 in Rome , † March 7, 1752 in Dublin ) was an Italian violinist and composer in the transition between baroque and pre-classical music .

Life

Pietro Castrucci was probably like his brother Prospero Castrucci (1690-1760) a pupil of Arcangelo Corelli . Georg Friedrich Händel met the two brothers during his stay in Italy. Both were in the service of Cardinal Ottoboni and then entered the service of Lord Burlington . They quit this in 1720 to change to Handel's London opera orchestra. Pietro was a member here until 1742 and worked as concertmaster until 1737 .

Castrucci is considered to be the inventor of the Violetta marina . This small viola with additional sympathetic strings, perhaps not unlike the viola d'amore in its delicacy , had the range of an ordinary viola. In the aria "Già l'ebro mio ciglio" in the Orlando opera , Handel composed a part for this instrument for the Castrucci brothers. In Handel's movement, the upper Violetta marina reaches the two-stroke E- flat in the upper part , the lower one in the lower part the small e .

Works

  • Op. 1: 12 Sonata a Violino e Violone o harpsichord (Amsterdam, 1718)
  • Op. 2: 12 Sonata a Violino e Violone o Cimbalo (London)

Op. 1 and Op. 2 follow the style of his teacher Corelli.

  • Op. 3: 12 Concerti Grossi (London 1736), stylistically between Corelli's Op. 6 and those of Francesco Geminiani . Castrucci often built in unusual, original ideas for the time, for example an echo concertino group in Concerto grosso number 12.
  • 12 Sonata a Flauto traverso o Violino o Hautbois e Basso continuo , which he published in 1731 together with Geminiani.
  • Sonata a Violino e Basso continuo in A (Manuscript, Schranck No: II )
  • 4 Sonate in Six Sonate a une Flute & une Basse choisis des derniers ouvrages solo de la Composition de Messieurs Geminiani & Castrucci (Amsterdam)

The Concerti grossi were performed in 2001 by the “Handel Festival Orchestra Halle” under the direction of Anton Steck and released on CD.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [ichriss.ccarh.org/HRD/1737.htm Handel Online Database 1737]
  2. ^ Chrysander, Friedrich : GF Handel , second volume, Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1860, p. 257
personal data
SURNAME Castrucci, Pietro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1679
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1752
Place of death Dublin