Carlo Besozzi

about

Carlo Besozzi (1738 – 22 March 1791) was an Italian oboist and composer. Besozzi was born in Naples, the son of the oboist and composer Antonio Besozzi (1714-1781). Carlo Besozzi joined his father in the Dresden court orchestra. However, the Dresden opera house was destroyed by the Prussians in the Seven Years' War (1756–63), breaking up the remarkable group of musicians assembled by Elector Frederick Augustus II. The Besozzis escaped to London in early 1757, performed in Paris in December of that year, spent 1758–9 playing under Niccolò Jommelli in Stuttgart, and may have waited out the rest of the war in Turin. His father was back on the Dresden payroll by 1764, and Carlo stayed with the court until the year of his death. He composed several concertos and sonatas, most for the oboe. With his father and Johann Christian Fischer, Besozzi may have been a collaborator of the instrument-makers Grenser and Grundmann, who produced the prototypical European Classical hautboy (oboe) in Dresden around this time. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

albums

Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol. 2

Besozzi: Sonate per 2 Oboi, 2 Corni e Fagotto

▥

Besozzi: Treasures from the Cesky Kyumlov Castle

▥

Music at the Castle in the Czech Krumlov

▥

Italian Oboe Concertos, Vol 2

▥

Sonate per 2 Oboi, 2 Corni e Fagotto

▥

Carlo Besozzi - Sonate per 2 Oboi 2 Corni e Fagotto

▥

Oboe Concerto No. 1 in C major

▥

?

▥

Sans Souci / Carlo Besozzi - Sonate per 2 Oboi 2 Corni e Fagotto

similar artists