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Fortunato Chelleri
Keyboard Music
Edited by Vassilis Vavoulis
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ISBN 0-89579-457-8 |
(2000) xvi+109 pp. |
$47.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-457-4
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Fortunato Chelleri (ca. 1690–1757) began his career as an opera composer
in Venice, but for most of his professional life he found employment as
Kapellmeister at various northern European courts. He travelled to Venice,
Barcelona, Würzburg, Kassel, London, Düsseldorf, Florence and
Stockholm, and his associates included Vivaldi, Agrell, Sandoni, Platti,
Ariosti, Cuzzoni, and Pilotti. Chelleri’s considerable corpus of instrumental
music shows evident signs of cosmopolitanism, and the harpsichord sonatas
presented in this edition combine elements of the suite-based works of both
the French clavecinistes and the German keyboard composers. At the same
time, his music is also very much characterized by the italianate
spirit of the ‘Gallanti’ composers who were to be the next phase in harpsichord
music. Chelleri’ best moments may be looked for in the intimate Andantes,
the often volatile Gigas, and, not least, in the eight elegant Minuets and
their interplay of gesture and repetition.
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