Alfredo Piatti
Alfredo Carlo Piatti (born January 8, 1822 in Bergamo , † July 18, 1901 in Mozzo near Bergamo) was an Italian cello virtuoso and composer .
life and work
Alfredo Piatti was trained by his father Antonio Piatti and Gaetano Zinetti ; between 1832 and 1837 he studied at the Conservatory of Milan . In 1834 he made his debut as a cello virtuoso in Milan. In 1838 he undertook his first European tour. In 1843 he performed with Franz Liszt in Munich , in 1844 he made his debut in Paris , then in London , where he performed under Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , who supposedly wanted to write a cello concerto for him.
In 1856 in Woodchester near Stroud he married the singer and pianist Mary Ann Lucy Welsh , the only daughter of Thomas Welsh, a well-known singing teacher. He then moved to London with her. There he was principal cellist and soloist at the London “Saturday and Monday Concerts” from 1859 to 1898 and also undertook extensive concert tours abroad. In 1898 Alfredo Piatti ended his active concert life and teaching, left England and "retired" back to Italy. He died in 1901 in the Villa Crocetto in Mozzo near Bergamo.
In England, Alfredo Piatti became popular as an artist and as a teacher. He was one of the leading musicians of the London Popular Concerts and from 1859 played for a long time in a string quartet with Joseph Joachim (1st violin), Louis Ries (2nd violin) and Henry Webb (viola, later Ludwig Strauss) for the Londoners Beethoven Quartet Society . He taught at the Royal Academy of Music and counted among others the cellists Robert Hausmann , Hugo Becker and WE Whitehouse among his students.
He composed two cello concertos, a concertino for cello, six cello sonatas, a “quartettino” for four cellos (“In Vacanza”, 1891), songs with cello accompaniment and solo pieces and wrote a cello school. His 12 Capricci for solo cello, which are also known as the “New Testament” (in contrast to the 6 suites by Bach - the “Old Testament”) of the cello literature are particularly well known .
literature
- Federico Fornoni: Piatti, Alfredo Carlo. In: Raffaele Romanelli (ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 83: Piacentini – Pio V. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 2015.
- Annalisa Lodetti Barzanò, Christian Bellisario: Signor Piatti. Cellist, composer, avant-garde player. Academy, Kronberg 2001, ISBN 3-934395-08-2 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Alfredo Piatti in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federico Fornoni: Alfredo Piatti. In: Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Piatti, Alfredo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Piatti, Alfredo Carlo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cello virtuoso and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 8, 1822 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bergamo |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1901 |
| Place of death | Mozzo |