Francesco Corbetta

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Francesco Corbetta

Francesco Corbetta (* around 1615 in Pavia , † 1681 in Paris ), also French Francisque Corbette , was an Italian guitarist and composer .

Life

Corbetta worked first at the court of Louis XIV in Paris, then at that of Charles II in London . Corbetta is considered one of the most influential guitarists of the 17th century.

Five volumes of music for the five-course baroque guitar have been preserved of his works (including suites ) . The first contains mainly dance movements (e.g. in the form of the foil ) in the rasgueado technique, the later ones show him as a virtuoso master of combining rasgueado and punteado playing . Here (for example in the volume from 1643) there are also important notes on figured bass playing on the guitar. While his earlier compositions followed the Italian tradition, in the last two work volumes he turned entirely to the French style. In addition, Corbetta was an influential instrumental teacher. Among his students wereRobert de Visée , the guitarist and composer Giovanni Battista Granata (around 1622–1687), composer of a Sinfonia à dui published in 1651 in Nuova Scielta di capricci armonici in Bologna , by Soavi Concenti di Sonate (1659) and author of Novi Capricci armonici Musicali pour la Chitarra Spagnola (1674), and Remy Médard , Queen Anne of Great Britain and Louis XIV. He dedicated his Varii scherzi di sonate per la chitara spagnola to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria .

Works

Portrait from the fourth volume of the Varii scherzi
  • Scherzi Armonici ( Bologna 1639)
  • Varii Capriccii per la Chitarra Spagnola ( Milan 1643)
  • Varii Scherzi di Sonate per la Chitara Spagnola, Libro Quarto ( Brussels 1648)
  • La Guitarre Royalle, dediée au Roy de la Grande Bretagne (Paris 1671)
  • La Guitarre Royalle (Paris 1674)

literature

  • Richard T. Pinnell: The role of Francesco Corbetta in the history of music for the baroque guitar . (Dissertation) University of California Press 1976.
  • Richard T. Pinnell: Francesco Corbetta and the Baroque Guitar . Ann Arbor (Michigan): UMI Research Press 1980. ISBN 0-8357-1140-4 .
  • James Tyler: A guide to playing the baroque guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington / Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , pp. 49–57 and (on figured bass) 118–126.

Web links

Commons : Francesco Corbetta  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Suite: Sequence of dance movements such as Prelude , Allemande , Courante , Sarabande , Menuet and Chaconne . Cf. for example Adalbert Quadt : Guitar music of the 16th – 18th centuries. Century. According to tablature ed. by Adalbert Quadt. Volume 1-4. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970 ff .; 2nd edition ibid 1975-1984, Volume 1, pp. 26-28, and Volume 4, pp. 26-38.
  2. ↑ Adalbert Quadt (ed.): Guitar music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. Volume 1, pp. 22-28 (two slides and one suite from La Guitarre Royalle from 1670).
  3. ↑ James Tyler: A Guide to Playing the Baroque Guitar. Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis 2011, ISBN 978-0-253-22289-3 , pp. 126-134.
  4. ↑ James Tyler: Introduction to the facsimile edition of: GB Granata: Soavi Concenti di Sonate (1659). Editions Chanterelle, Monaco 1980.
  5. ↑ Adalbert Quadt (ed.): Guitar music from the 16th to 18th centuries Century. 4 volumes. Edited from tablature. Deutscher Verlag für Musik, Leipzig 1970–1984, Volume 1, pp. 17–20 and 58.
personal data
SURNAME Corbetta, Francesco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corbette, Francisque
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer and guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1615
PLACE OF BIRTH Pavia
DATE OF DEATH 1681
Place of death Paris