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Giuseppe Agus
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18th centuryitalian
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Giuseppe Agus (born ca. 1725; died c. 1800 in some reference summaries, but April 1803 in other cataloguing) was an Italian violinist and composer whose career is most firmly visible through his London-connected instrumental publications and theatre-associated dance music. Musicological authority catalogues identify him straightforwardly as a composer and violinist and preserve multiple name-forms (including “Gioseph Agus”), but do not offer a single, richly documented narrative of his early training. One widely repeated biographical sketch places his professional migration to England around 1750, after which he was active in London’s Italian-operatic milieu, including work described as ballet composition at the Italian Opera, and he continued to write a mixture of instrumental chamber music and functional theatre or social dance repertory. The surviving printed and catalogued works attached to Agus support this London-facing profile. His violin sonatas—issued in sets such as six sonatas for violin and continuo (Op. 1)—sit within the mid-eighteenth-century market for “solo” chamber music that served both skilled amateurs and professional players. Alongside this, he published explicitly theatrical or dance-adjacent pieces: a set titled “The Allemands danced at the King’s Theatre in the Haymarket… with Mr. Slingsby’s Hornpipe” (first published 1767) embeds his name in London’s performance economy and shows him writing for flexible domestic instrumentation (flute/violin/harpsic
top songs
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Sonata No. 1 in A Major: II. Allegro assai
852Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major: II. Allegro maestoso
153Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Major: I. Largo
154Sonata No. 1 in A Major: I. Largo
145Sonata No. 1 in A Major: III. Andante
146Sonata No. 3 in C Major: II. Allegro ma non troppo
137Sonata No. 3 in C Major: I. Adagio
118Sonata No. 3 in C Major: III. Minue
119Sonata No. 4 in G Major: II. Allegro maestoso
1110Sonata No. 6 in E Major: III. Tempo di minuetto
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