The Soavi Affetti Baroque Music Ensemble focuses on the rich production of Italian masters, performing with original instruments and techniques to explore the Baroque trio sonata repertoire.
Compositional Technique
Gentili's Op.1 is notable for its florid solo writing, especially in the first violin parts, which exploit the fourth position and frequently use arpeggio figurations.
Composer Biography
Giorgio Gentili, also known as Faiòn, was a successful violinist, music teacher, and composer in Venice, though his exact birth date and place are unknown.
Composition History
Five sets of Gentili's sonatas and concertos were published within just seven years, with his Op.1 trio sonatas first issued in Venice in 1701.
Cultural Impact
Gentili's works quickly reached northern Europe, with his Op.1 and Op.3 sonatas pirated in Amsterdam, and one of his concertos transcribed for organ by Johann Gottfried Walther in Weimar.
Compositional Technique
Gentili's Op.1 trio sonatas largely follow the 'Corellian' slow-fast-slow-fast (SFSF) sequence, with ten of the twelve sonatas being four-movement works.
Composer Biography
Gentili was appointed as a violinist to the San Marco chapel in Venice in 1689 and later became maestro di istromenti at the Ospedale of the Mendicanti.
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