Composers

Giuseppe Torelli

String ensemble
Violin
Trumpet
Orchestra
Cello
Concerto
Sonata
Sinfonia
Concerti grossi
Pastorale
Concertino
Balletti
Dance
Suite
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12 Concerti grossi con una pastorale, Op.812 Concertino per camera, Op.43 Sinfonie

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Concerti da camera, Op.2Concerti musicali, Op.6Concerto grosso in D minor, Op.5 No.2Concerto grosso in G minor, Op.8 No.6

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Sinfonia in C major, G.33Sinfonia in D major, G.10Sinfonia in D major, G.14Sinfonia in D major, G.2Sinfonia in D major, G.25Sinfonia in D major, G.29Sinfonia in D major, G.4Sinfonia in D major, G.8Sinfonia in D major, G.9Sinfonie a 3 e Concerti a 4, Op.5Sonata à cinque in D majorSonata à cinque in D major, G.3Sonata à cinque in D major, G.5Sonata à cinque in D major, G.6Sonata à cinque in D major, G.7Sonate a trè stromenti con il basso continuo, Op.1

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Trio Sonata in A major, P.A.3.3.25Trio Sonata in D major, P.A.3.3.10Trio Sonata in D major, P.A.3.3.11Trio Sonata in D major, P.A.4.2.2Trio Sonata in D minor, P.A.3.3.14Trumpet Concerto in D major 'Estienne Roger 188'Trumpet Sonata in D major, G.1

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Violin Concerto in A major, P.A.2.3.5Violin Concerto in B minor, P.A.2.3.6Violin Concerto in C minor, Op.8 No.8Violin Concerto in D major, P.A.2.3.4Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.8 No.7Violin Concerto in D minor, P.A.2.3.10Violin Sonata in A major, P.A.1.3.11Violin Sonata in E minor, P.A.1.3.8
Wikipedia
Giuseppe Torelli (22 April 1658 – 8 February 1709) was an Italian violist, violinist, teacher, and composer of the late Baroque era.
Torelli is most remembered for contributing to the development of the instrumental concerto., especially concerti grossi and the solo concerto, for strings and continuo, as well as being the most prolific Baroque composer for trumpets.
Torelli was born in Verona. It is not known with whom he studied violin though it has been speculated that he was a pupil of Leonardo Brugnoli or Bartolomeo Laurenti, but it is certain that he studied composition with Giacomo Antonio Perti. On 27 June 1684, at the age of 26, he became a member of the Accademia Filarmonica as suonatore di violino. He was employed as a viola player at the San Petronio basilica beginning in 1686, where he stayed until 1695. or January 1696. when the orchestra was discontinued because of financial constraints. On 1687 Giuseppe Corsi da Celano played Torelli's music, from Op. 3, in Parma at the Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata. By 1698 he was maestro di concerto at the court of Georg Friedrich II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, where he conducted the orchestra for Le pazzie d'amore e dell'interesse, an idea drammatica composed by the maestro di cappella, and the castrato Francesco Antonio Pistocchi, before leaving for Vienna in December 1699. He returned to Bologna sometime before February 1701, when he is listed as a violinist in the newly re-formed cappella musicale at San Petronio, directed by his former composition teacher Perti.
He died at age 50 on 8 February 1709 in Bologna (.), where his manuscripts are conserved in the San Petronio archives.
Giuseppe's brother, Felice Torelli, was a Bolognese painter of modest reputation, who went on to be a founding member of the Accademia Clementina. The most notable amongst Giuseppe's many pupils was Francesco Manfredini. Giuseppe Torelli Was an Italian Baroque Composer