Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) - Concerto á 5 ()

Buon compleanno Benedetto Marcello! 🎻🍷 Composer: Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739) Work: Concerto (Re maggiore). | co V.|n|o conc: VV.|n|i Viola e Basso. | 5 St.[immen] () Performers: Carrol Glenn (1918-1983, violin); Austrian Tonkuenstler Orchestra; Lee Schaenen (1925-1993, conductor) Concerto á 5 () 1. Presto 0:00 2. Adagio 3:19 3. Presto 6:59 Painting: Maximilian Blommaert (18th Century) - A cottage interior HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Benedetto (Giacomo) Marcello [Marcelli, Mercello, Driante Sacro] (Venice, 31 July 1686 - Brescia, 24 July 1739) Italian composer and writer. Scion of one of the lesser aristocratic families of Venice, he was admitted to the Maggior Consiglio (Great Council) of the Most Serene Republic on 4 December 1706 and, thereafter, fulfilled the political duties expected of a Venetian noble, serving in various magistracies, as governor of Pola in Istria (1730-1733), and ending his life as financial chamberlain (from 1738) in Brescia (then part of the Republic of Venice). At the same time, he carried out a remarkable career as a composer, music teacher, and critic. In 1728 he married the commoner Rosanna Scalfi, his singing pupil. As a composer, his most influential efforts were, unusual for the time, in sacred music. His 50 Psalms of David, in eight volumes beginning in 1724, were an attempt to cleanse sacred music of operatic impurities. They have been translated into many languages and continued to be sung in liturgies well into the 19th century. He also composed four oratorios and nine masses, one of which secured his admission to the Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna in 1711. His main achievements in secular music were: 380 solo cantatas, 81 duets, and 7 trios, many composed on his own texts. His instrumental output include: 12 concerti grossi, 5 other concertos, 7 sinfonie, 12 harpsichord sonatas, some 3 dozen other movements for keyboard, and 28 solo sonatas, a number of them for cello still often performed. His most popular creation during his own lifetime was his satire of the business of Italian opera ’Il Teatro alla Moda’, published anonymously in 1720.