Marco Molaschi, the performer on this album, is an Italian classical musician from Cremona who actively promotes historical organs.
Barbieri's musical style reflected the dramatic-operatic taste of his time, characterized by fluent melodic ease.
After his patron and father died in the same year, Barbieri became self-taught in composition and instrumentation by borrowing treatises.
Girolamo Barbieri, born in Piacenza in 1808, became a skilled organist and pianist early in his career.
The organ pieces on this album showcase 'band/orchestral' sonorities typical of the 19th-century Lombard tradition.
Girolamo Barbieri held prestigious positions as 'Maestro di Cappella' and organist, including at the cathedral of Cremona in 1842.
This recording uses the Angelo Amati great pipe organ in Pizzighettone (Cremona), which Girolamo Barbieri himself inaugurated on July 24, 1843.
