Locatelli: il virtuoso, il poeta (Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi)

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Giovanni Antonini
Isabelle Faust
Il Giardino Armonico
Pietro Antonio Locatelli

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Cultural Impact

Locatelli's innovations in violin technique were so significant that the first half of the 19th century would not have become the era of the virtuoso concerto without his daring contributions.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Locatelli's music blends traditional styles from composers like Corelli and Vivaldi with new sonic and expressive possibilities, showing influences of the galant style.

Compositional Technique

Locatelli's violin technique was revolutionary, featuring playing in extremely high positions (up to the twenty-second position in later works) and unprecedented left-hand extensions.

Compositional Technique

Locatelli's L'Arte del violino, Op. 3, published in 1733, was highly influential and earned him the reputation of an 'eighteenth-century Paganini' due to its 24 virtuosic unaccompanied Capricci.

Composer Biography

Pietro Antonio Locatelli, a prominent violinist and composer, was born in Bergamo in 1695 and studied in Rome, possibly with Giuseppe Valentini.

Composer Biography

After 1729, Locatelli settled in Amsterdam and withdrew from public performance, instead organizing private concerts with amateur musicians and focusing on publishing his own works.

Composer Biography

Locatelli was known as 'the Devil's violinist' due to his dazzling virtuosity, which was famously compared to playing 'like a demon' during a violin duel in 1728.