Victor Sangiorgio, the pianist on this album, began performing publicly at age five and has been a soloist with major Australian orchestras, recording and broadcasting extensively.
Composition History
The authenticity of many of Cimarosa's keyboard sonatas, including newly discovered ones, remains unproven due to weak circumstantial evidence and the absence of autograph manuscripts.
Compositional Technique
Cimarosa's keyboard sonatas are small-scale works, structurally unsophisticated compared to those of Haydn and Mozart, and feature a clear polarity between melody and accompaniment.
Interpretation
The arrangement of the sonatas in this recording follows the groupings first proposed by Jennifer Johnson in 1976, sometimes based on her choices and other times on the Florentine manuscript's numbering.
Composition History
The first Cimarosa solo keyboard music was discovered mysteriously in 1924 by Felice Boghen, a piano teacher and librarian in Florence.
Composer Biography
Domenico Cimarosa was the best-known Italian composer of the late eighteenth century, primarily recognized for his operas, over sixty of which he composed between 1772 and 1801.
Composition History
The discovered collection of Cimarosa's keyboard sonatas was a copy, not an autograph, and contained many mistakes, leading to editorial errors in its first publication.
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