Sinfonia in g minor for strings and basso continuo

Composer: ALBINONI, Tomaso
  • This work was influenced by the music of Albinoni’s fellow Venetian, and contemporary, Antonio Vivaldi.1  
  • Venice was a center of arts in the 18th C. Venetian compositions were popular throughout Europe, and tourists flocked to Venice to hear music.2
  • Genre: Baroque sinfonia, an ancestor of the Classical symphony. A baroque sinfonia usually contains 3 movements, and may be scored for one or more instruments.3

Sources

  1. Michael Talbot, “Albinoni: The Professional Dilettante,” The Musical Times 112, no. 1540 (June 1971), 538-541, accessed July 11, 2019, https://www.jstor.org/stable/957427.
  2. Adrian Chandler, liner notes to Venice by Night, La Serenissima, Adrian Chandler, Mhairi Lawson, soprano, Simon Munday, trumpet, Peter Whelan, bassoon, Avie 2257, CD, 2012.
  3. Harvard Dictionary of Music, 4th ed., s.v. “Sinfonia” (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003).

Cut IDs

22397