Francesco Paolo Supriani

Francesco Paolo Tomaso Supriani (born July 11, 1678 in Conversano , † August 28, 1753 in Naples ) was an Italian cellist and composer of the Neapolitan school .

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Francesco Supriani was one of the early virtuosos on the cello from 1693 as a student of the Neapolitan “Conservatorio della Piéta dei Turchini”. He was the author of a handwritten, didactic collection of toccatas for this instrument with an explanatory introduction, the “ Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello e con 12 toccate a solo ” from 1720, which was written by the musicologist and cellist Luigi Silva (1903– 1961) were rediscovered and edited in the library of the “Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella” in Naples. In this work, Scipriani has used the fifth position as well as the bass and tenor clef from the very beginning. Scipriani is considered one of the teachers of Francesco Alborea , also often called Franciscello.

Web links

• Sheet music and audio files by Francesco Paolo Supriani in the International Music Score Library Project

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfredo Giovine: Musicisti e cantanti di terra di Bari . Biblioteca dell'Archivio della tradizioni popolari baresi, Bari (Mare), 1968, p. 54
2. ^ Dinko Fabris: Music In Seventeenth-Century Naples: Francesco Provenzale
3. ↑ Brief description of the Principij da imparare a suonare in violoncello ...  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Guido Olivieri: “Cello Playing and Teaching in Eighteenth-Century Naples: FP Supriani's Principij da imparare a suonare il violoncello” . In: in Performance Practice: Issues and Approaches . Steglein Publishing, 2009.