Classical Composer Datebook: July 27
Mauro Giuliani, Italian virtuoso guitarist,cellist, and composer, is born July 27 (1781) in Barletta. He devised a guitar with shorter fingerboard.
As a guitar composer he was very fond of theme and variations, a form extremely popular in Vienna. An example of this ability is his Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op. 107. This popular theme, known as "The Harmonious Blacksmith", appears in the Aria from Handel's Suite no. 5 in E for harpsichord.
Giuliani's achievements as a composer were numerous with with opus number constituting a huge part of the nineteenth-century guitar repertory. He composed excellent pieces for solo guitar, orchestra, Guitar-Violin and Guitar-Flute duos.
His outstanding pieces include three guitar concertos (op. 30-36 and 70); a series of six fantasias for guitar solo, op. 119-124, based on airs from operas by Rossini, several sonatas for violin and guitar and flute and guitar, a Grand Overture in the Italian style, among others.
He also transcribed many symphonic works, both for solo guitar and guitar duo. One such transcription arranges the overture to Rossini's The Barber of Seville, for two guitars. Many of his didactic works, among which is a guitar method for instruction frequently by teachers. His concerti and guitar solo pieces are still played today. He died May 8, 1829.
Suggested Link:
Giuliani Complete Guitar Concertos, Pepe Romero 1/2. YouTube, uploaded by HarpsichordA6. Accessed May 27, 2018. (Pepe Romero, Guitar. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.)
Video Credit:
Kyu Hee Park Playing 3rd Part of Concerto Op.30 by Mauro Giuliani. YouTube uploaded by PittaLuga. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Resources:
Mauro Giuliani. en.wikipedia.org.
The Grove Dictionary of Music, New Updated Ed. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1994.
Image Credit:
Mauro Giuliani, en.wikipedia.org, Public Domain
(c) 2014. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web.
Mauro Giuliani, Italian virtuoso guitarist,cellist, and composer, is born July 27 (1781) in Barletta. He devised a guitar with shorter fingerboard.
As a guitar composer he was very fond of theme and variations, a form extremely popular in Vienna. An example of this ability is his Variations on a Theme of Handel, Op. 107. This popular theme, known as "The Harmonious Blacksmith", appears in the Aria from Handel's Suite no. 5 in E for harpsichord.
Giuliani's achievements as a composer were numerous with with opus number constituting a huge part of the nineteenth-century guitar repertory. He composed excellent pieces for solo guitar, orchestra, Guitar-Violin and Guitar-Flute duos.
His outstanding pieces include three guitar concertos (op. 30-36 and 70); a series of six fantasias for guitar solo, op. 119-124, based on airs from operas by Rossini, several sonatas for violin and guitar and flute and guitar, a Grand Overture in the Italian style, among others.
He also transcribed many symphonic works, both for solo guitar and guitar duo. One such transcription arranges the overture to Rossini's The Barber of Seville, for two guitars. Many of his didactic works, among which is a guitar method for instruction frequently by teachers. His concerti and guitar solo pieces are still played today. He died May 8, 1829.
Suggested Link:
Giuliani Complete Guitar Concertos, Pepe Romero 1/2. YouTube, uploaded by HarpsichordA6. Accessed May 27, 2018. (Pepe Romero, Guitar. Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Sir Neville Marriner, Conductor.)
Video Credit:
Kyu Hee Park Playing 3rd Part of Concerto Op.30 by Mauro Giuliani. YouTube uploaded by PittaLuga. Accessed October 11, 2014.
Resources:
Mauro Giuliani. en.wikipedia.org.
The Grove Dictionary of Music, New Updated Ed. Edited by Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1994.
Image Credit:
Mauro Giuliani, en.wikipedia.org, Public Domain
(c) 2014. Tel Asiado. Inspired Pen Web.
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