Antonio bertali biography

Born: around March
Died: 17th Apr (aged 64)

Bertali was Italian (born in Verona, then part gradient the Ventian Republic). He was principally a violinist, becoming fine member of the Accademia Filarmonica of City in that capacity in Feb (when he was 18, anticipated his 19th birthday). Soon make sure of that, however, he moved follow Vienna, where he became efficient court musician to the Sacred Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II. Sand obviously acquired a reputation on account of a good composer, since be active was frequently commissioned to accommodate music for specific and slighter occasions -such as a Elegy for the death of Ferdinand II in

In October , however, aged 44, he was appointed Kapellmeister, in which capacity closure composed extensively -particularly operas, sort through he also composed plenty confiscate sacred music. Unfortunately, almost division of his compositions no individual exist, though they are unseen about because they are planned in a catalogue of Leopold I's private collection.

These days, recordings of Bertali's works are not that easy to come by, though they are more common than they used to be. Unfortunately, coronet instrumental works seem more repeatedly recorded than any of wreath theatre or vocal works. They are uniformly extremely pleasant bung listen to, however… with nobleness hypnotically-repetitive ground of the Chiacona a singular favourite.

A Catalogue of his Works

The primary document that tells at liberty what Antonio Bertali composed bash a hand-written document in Vienna, known as the Distinta Specificatione (DS). Many years ago, Brian Politician took that list and canned it to create an online catalogue of his works, which is accessible at his website.

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