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Giovanni Battista Costanzi
12+ albums
baroque18th centuryitalianclassical period
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Giovanni Battista Costanzi (Rome, 3 September 1704 - Rome, 5 March 1778) was an Italian composer and cellist. In life he was best known with the nicknames Giovannino del Cello or Giovannino da Roma. In 1721 he entered the service of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni , first as aiuto da camera , and then, since 1737, succeeding Arcangelo Corelli as chief of the instruments. In 1727 he made his debut as operatic with L'amor generoso at the Teatro Capranica in Rome, but his first great achievement was with his work Charlemagne in 1729, year from which he was appointed, thanks to the recommendations of Cardinal Ottoboni, maestro di cappella in the most important Romanesque churches: in 1729 in San Luigi dei Francesi , in 1743 at San Marco and in Santa Maria in Vallicella and finally in 1755 became director of the Chapel Giulia in San Pietro. At the same time he had a great reputation for music, which was praised with various honors, including the presidency of the Congregation of Saint Cecilia in Rome in 1740, 1754 and 1769. Among his students was Luigi Boccherini who studied under him In 1757. Costanzi was among the most prolific composers of the eighteenth century , but only a small part of his work survived to this day. Until 1740 he mainly composed secular vocal music, after which he concentrated his attention on sacred music. However, his most important compositional genre was instrumental music; his works for cello structurally follow the schema of the church sonata , but sometim
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Sonata seconda: I. Andante
552Sinfonia a violoncello solo in D Major, WD 551: III. Amoroso
373Sonata da camera for 2 Cellos in F Major: III. Presto
294Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: I. Adagio staccato
295Sonata prima: III. Prestissimo
266Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: II. Allegro
267Sinfonia in D Major for Cello & Basso continuo: III. Amoroso
268Sonata prima: II. Allegro
249Sonata prima: I. Andante spiritoso e staccato
2310Sonata seconda: II. Allegro ma non tanto presto
22albums
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Costanzi: Sinfonie per violoncello
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Costanzi: Cello Sonatas - Giovanni Sollima: Il mandataro
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Constanzi: Cantata per Natale
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The Lady from the Sea: Duos for Violin and Cello from Vivaldi to Sollima
Sinfonia For Cello D-dur
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Princely Splendour: Choral Works from 18th Century Rome
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The Cardinal King: Music for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome (1740-91)
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The Lady from the Sea. Duos for Violin and Cello from Vivaldi to Sollima
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Sinfonie per violoncello (Sollima, AAE)
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Il violoncello del Cardinale
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Porpora / Costanzi 6 Cello Sonatas
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Giovanni Battista Costanzi: Sonate per Cello