Tommaso vitali biography
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- Tomaso Antonio Vitali (March 7, 1663 – May 9, 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali.
- Tomaso Antonio Vitali was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque era.
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Tomaso Antonio Vitali
Tomaso Antonio Vitali (March 7, 1663 – May 9, 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, the eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali.[1] He is known mainly for a chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, probably not actually by him, which was first generally made known in a 19th-century edition by German violinist Ferdinand David.[2]
Biography
Vitali studied composition in Modena with Antonio Maria Pacchioni, and was employed at the Este court orchestra from 1675 to 1742. He was a teacher, whose pupils included Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco, Jean Baptiste Senaillé, Girolamo Nicolò Laurenti and Luca Antonio Predieri.[3]
Authentic works by Vitali include a set of trio sonatas published as his opus numbers 1 and 2 (1693), sonatas à camera (chamber sonatas), and violin sonatas (including his opus 6)[citation needed] among other works. Among those that have been recorded include all of the op. 1 (on Naxos 8.570182), three of the violin sonatas (on the Swiss label Gallo), and some of the sonatas fro
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Tomaso Antonio Vitali
Italian composer and violinist
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Portrait of Vitali from the second half of the 18th century by an unknown Emilian painter[1] | |
| Born | Tomaso Antonio Vitali (1663-03-07)7 March 1663 Bologna, Italy |
| Died | 9 May 1745(1745-05-09) (aged 82) Modena, Italy |
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Tomaso Antonio Vitali (7 March 1663 – 9 May 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist of the mid to late Baroque era. The eldest son of Giovanni Battista Vitali, he is chiefly known for a Chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, to which he is traditionally attributed as the composer. The work was published from a manuscript in the Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden in Die Hoch Schule des Violinspiels (1867) edited by German violinist Ferdinand David.[3] That work's wide-ranging modulations into distant keys have raised speculation that it could not be a genuine Baroque work, while the lack of similarities to other works by Vitali have made modern scholars cast serious doubts on the attribution.
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Tomaso Vitali, classical music composer
Tomaso Vitali
Biography
The son of the famous Baroque cellist, Giovanni Battista Vitali, Tomaso Vitali's fame today almost entirely rests upon a single composition—the colossal Chaconne in G minor for violin. Tomaso was born on March 7, 1663 and his early music education likely came from his father. When the elder Vitali took up the post of vicemaestri di capelli at the d'Este court in Modena in 1675, Tomaso, then only twelve years of age, joined the court orchestra as a violinist. He would remain at the Modena court for nearly the remainder of his life, leaving the court just three years before his death. From an instrumentalist in the court orchestra, he eventually rose to the position of orchestral director. In 1703, he became a member of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica, of which his father was a founding member. Within three years of joining, he earned the rank of composer within the academy. Tomaso died in Modena on May 9, 1745.
All of Vitali's surviving output is instrumental works. His first published compositions, two coll
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