Francesco Alborea

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Francesco Alborea, engraving by Johann Jakob Haid after a painting by Martin van Meytens

Francesco Alborea , also known as Franciscello or Francischello (* March 7, 1691 in Naples , † July 20, 1739 in Vienna ), was an Italian cellist and composer of the late Baroque.

Life

Francesco Alborea acquired his musical knowledge as a student of the "Conservatorio Santa Maria di Loreto" in Naples. He was principal cellist in the royal Neapolitan court orchestra and, along with Giovanni Perroni (1688–1748), Francesco Scipriani (1678–1753), Salvatore Lanzetti (1710–1780) and others, was one of those influential Italian cello virtuosos of his time who made the cello instead of the bass viol was increasingly used as an obligatory solo and orchestral instrument. Johann Joachim Quantz and Francesco Geminiani mention his excellent playing on the cello. Travels took him through Italy and to Vienna, where Franz Benda reported on his game. From 1721 until his death Alborea found employment as a member of the Vienna Court Music Band , most recently with a salary of 1260 guilders. The early use of the thumb position is known from Francesco Alborea, unless he was using a five-string cello. The French cellists Martin Berteau and Jean-Baptiste Barrière were among his students .

Two sonatas (C major and D major) for cello and figured bass are known by Alborea, which for the time required high positions and contain numerous difficult double and chord fingerings and arpeggios.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ François-Joseph Fétis : Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie génèrale de la musique (1862) p. 307
  2. ^ Harvard University: The Imperial Court Music Band in Vienna from 1543 to 1867. According to documented research . Vienna, Beck'sche Universitats-Buchhandlung, 1869 ( archive.org [accessed on January 13, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Robert Eitner : Biographical-bibliographical source lexicon of musicians and music scholars (1900)
  4. ↑ Dagmar Glüxam: cello. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
  5. ↑ Histoire du violoncelle ( Memento of March 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Alborea, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franciscello; Francischello
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cellist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1691
PLACE OF BIRTH Naples
DATE OF DEATH July 20, 1739
Place of death Vienna