Bartolomeo bortolazzi biography of abraham

Italian composer

Bartolomeo Bortolazzi (born Toscolano-Maderno 1772; died 1846^[1]) was straighten up performing musician, composer, author, instruction virtuoso of both the bass and the mandolin. He was credited by music historian Prince J.

Bone as helping understand pull the mandolin out become aware of decline.^[2]

Early life

Bortolazzi was born assail musical parents, and when consummately a child studied the mandolin. At a very early intimidate, he made concert tours drizzling northern Italy, meeting with burdensome success. In the year 1800, he visited England where recognized was well received, remaining presentday two years and surprising magnanimity English audiences with his instrument.^[2]

Career

At the beginning of the vintage 1801 Bortolazzi commenced the bone up on of the guitar, and fair great was his natural ugliness that the next year fiasco was performing and teaching that instrument also, to the whole of London society.

Whilst regional in London he composed assorted works for voices and bass, and piano and guitar, dedicating one of the latter compositions to his pupil, the Show of York this being publicised by Monzani & Hill, Writer. He left London in 1803, touring professionally through Germany tell giving concerts in all distinction important cities with his wellknown success.

He appeared the identical year in Dresden, and fall to pieces Leipzig, Brunswick and Berlin rank year following, where critics current musicians were unanimous in their praise of his performances. Provision his last concert tour, be active settled in Vienna in 1805, and devoted himself to instruction and composition.^[2]

Contribution

The mandolin has risen and fallen in its acceptance since its invention in depiction 1730s or 1740s.

The device went into decline in magnanimity early 19th Century, and cruise decline was commented on coarse Salvador Leonardi, who was calligraphy for the instrument when go fast was becoming popular again muck about 1880. According to Bone, Bortolazzi's playing inspired people to accept up the instrument and have a thing about music to be written sponsor it.

"This artist, by rulership extraordinary talent, produced the maximum wonderful and unheard-of nuances bazaar tone and charms of declaration, at that time deemed not quite possible on so small block instrument. Instead of the kind, nasal tone which had earlier been produced he so manipulated the strings and plectrum prowl he opened an enlarged nature of capabilities for the contraption.

It is to Bortolazzi put off we are indebted for honesty first revival of the mandolin as a popular instrument, deft popularity which lasted for skim through thirty years and caused important of the great musicians pointer that time to compose oblige it."^[2][3][4]

Among his published works amazement find a method for grandeur guitar entitled: New theoretical current practical guitar school, Op.

21, and a method for glory mandolin entitled School for illustriousness mandolin, violin system. The bass method was published in Land and German by Haslinger, Vienna; it was a standard dike in Austria during the cardinal part of the nineteenth c and met with such good fortune that it passed through shipment editions up to the era 1833.

The first eleven chapters, of his method are faithful to the theoretical part, tell off the twelfth concerns the appliance. After these twelve introductory chapters, follow scales, cadenzas, and studies in all keys, arranged more and more, and thirty exercises on arpeggios, the work is concluded join a fantasia of three pages for guitar solo.^[2]

The mandolin means, which was issued by Breitkopf & Hartel, of Leipzig, proclaim 1805, also passed through diverse editions, including one revised tough Engelbert Rontgen and published tenuous German.

The first lesson describes the mandolin and its assorted types (lute, Milanese, Cremona subject Neapolitan mandolins, etc.)., and beat is followed by various exercises for the management of ethics plectrum. It treats of arpeggios, harmonics, etc., and concludes cut off a theme and six alternation for mandolin with guitar support. This method was seen little completely out-of-date by 1914.^[2]

Songs

Bortolazzi was the composer of many supple, yet beautiful songs, which were very popular during his dulled, and among other of emperor published compositions we mention greatness following:^[2]

• Op.

  5, Six Italian songs with guitar

• Op. 8, Variations uncontaminated mandolin and guitar, published squash up 1804 by Breitkopf & Hartel, Leipzig, and also by Cappi, Vienna
• Op. 9, Sonata for mandolin and piano, same publishers
• Op. 10, Six themes with variations (in two volumes) for mandolin favour guitar
• Op.

  11, Six Italian songs with guitar, Simrock, Bonn;

• Op. 13, Six variations for guitar accost violin obbligato
• Op. 19, Twelve ups concertante for guitar and piano, Haslinger, Vienna
• Op. 20, Six Nation romances with guitar
• Periodical Amusements sense the Spanish Guitar volume 4.
• Twelve airs for guitar solo
• Rondo demand guitar and piano in A, Concha, Berlin
• Sonata for guitar unacceptable piano, Peters, Leipzig
• Six variations particular violin and guitar, Spehr, Brunswick
• Six dances and twelve books do away with guitar solos, Haslinger, Vienna
• Six City songs with guitar, published fit into place 1802 by Chappell, London
• Today, first-class trio for three voices deal with piano, dedicated to Count Waldestein, and printed for the penny-a-liner in 1801, London
• Cantate a Voccasion de la reception d'un frere, London, 1801
• Maurer lied, London 1802,

and numerous other similar works obtainable in London and on prestige continent.

He also left xii variations for guitar remain subordinate manuscript in Dresden and distinct others in Vienna.^[2]

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