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Buzzolla - Complete Works for Pianoforte

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC810201

Barcode: 8007194104080

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st August 2007

Works

Buzzolla, Antonio

Marziale in C major
Notturno in F minor
Piano Sonata in E flat major, op.1
Piano Sonata no.2 in G minor
Waltzes (2)

Artists

Aldo Fiorentin (piano)

Works

Buzzolla, Antonio

Marziale in C major
Notturno in F minor
Piano Sonata in E flat major, op.1
Piano Sonata no.2 in G minor
Waltzes (2)

Artists

Aldo Fiorentin (piano)

About

An Italian musician, between classicism and romaticism.

At a first glance, the artistic career of Antonio Buzzolla greatly resembles that of many other musicians—some more famous than he and some less—in nineteenth century Italy. His training, immersed in the spirit of the hardworking Veneto region, took place in Adria (where he was born in 1815) under the tutelage of his father Angelo, maestro di cappella at the cathedral and the director of the local Philharmonic Society.

Young Antonio—barely seventeen years old, but already skilled on various instruments (violin, organ, piano, flute and piccolo)—moved to Venice in 1832 and was hired to play in the orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice. An article by the critic Luigi Plet, published some years later in L’Annunziatore, evokes the figure of this young man “of gentlemanly education, and of sweet and insinuating manners” who “made himself well loved in all musical gatherings thanks to his great prowess as an accompanist on the fortepiano”.

Such comments bring to mind the ambience of Venetian parlors and musical academies which provided the setting for Buzzolla’s chamber music. The following years were marked by significant events: the journey to Naples in order to acquire a “doctrinal instruction in the art of composition” (Plet); the encounter with the great masters, Bellini and Donizetti; and the promising operatic debut with the Venetian production of Ferramondo (1836).

Buzzolla, the “Italian singing master”, had now arrived on the international scene, traveling to Russia, Poland and Germany, and in 1844 the crowning achievement of his European adventures was the appointment to the prestigious post of director at the Italian Opera in Berlin.

As with his vocal chamber works, the few pieces which Buzzolla dedicated to the piano are united by the elegant dimensions and sensibilities typical of salon entertainments. These works are in manuscripts (published and recorded for the first time by Aldo Fiorentin), and they unquestionably contribute to revealing the artistic personality of the composer.