Carlo Chiabrano

Carlo Giuseppe Valentino Chiabrano (* 12. February 1723 in Turin , † possibly before 1776) was an Italian violinist and composer of the pre-classical period .

Life

Carlo Chiabrano came from a family of musicians and was a son of the Turin dance master and violinist, Giovanni Nicola Chiabrano (1686–1776). He received well-founded violin lessons mainly from his uncle Giovanni Battista Somis . In 1737, at the age of fourteen, he became a member of the Turin court orchestra and the opera orchestra at the Teatro Regio . In the 1740s he traveled to London, where his brother Francesco worked. In the summer of 1751 he appeared eleven times at the Concert spirituel in Paris, where he was enthusiastically received by the audience. The Mercure de France described their game as new, unique, lively, popping and full of surprises . Chiabrano was one of the first violinists to use the double violin. Carlo Chiabrano may have died before 1776, but he is not mentioned in the notarial deeds that were issued when his father died. During his stay in Paris, he taught the violinist Pierre Vachon .

His brothers were Francesco Chiabrano (* 1719, worked as a musician in London) and Gaetano Chiabrano (1725–1802, cellist and composer).

Works (selection)

• A symphony that Robert Eitner mentions in his lexicon is now considered lost.
• Six Sonates à violon seul et basse continue op.1 (Paris, 1761 under the name Charles Chabran)
• Six Favorite Solos for the Violin with a Torough Bass (London, 1763)

Individual evidence

1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1861)
2. ^ Marie-Thérèse Bouquet-Royer: in MGG Volume 4 Col. 921
3. ↑ Robert Eitner: Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900)