Before turning twenty, Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari had already learned to play five different instruments: oboe, flute, violin, viola, and contrabass.
Historical Context
In Ferrari's era, music for harp or piano was often interchangeable, with printed scores indicating "pour Harpe ou Piano" or "per Clavicembalo o arpa," and duets could even be performed by two pianos.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's "Quindici divertimenti" include marches dedicated to generals who defeated Napoleon, reflecting his conservative political views and catering to the aristocratic salons of his time.
Compositional Technique
The combination of harp and piano, though unusual today, was common in Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's time because the fortepiano's sound was closer to the harpsichord and the harp had not yet developed its distinct modern sound.
Composer Biography
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari's career as a singing master in England was so successful that he even taught the Princess of Wales.
Composer Biography
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari, an Italian composer and theoretician, was initially destined to continue his wealthy merchant father's cloth business in Rovereto.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Giacomo Gotifredo Ferrari became a strict conservative in music, refusing to adapt to the musical changes occurring in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, instead adhering to the ideals of his youth.
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