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Girolamo Barbieri - Organ Works

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC800201

Barcode: 8007194107159

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 3rd July 2020

Works

Barbieri, Girolamo

Adagio e rondo, coll'imitazione di flauto
Andante mosso e marziale
Assolo di flauto ed allegro marziale
Cantabile coll'imitazione di violoncello
Coll'imitazione di una musica militare
Melodia religiosa e marziale
Sinfonia, coll'imitazione di grande orchestra
Sinfonia

Artists

Marco Molaschi (organ)

Works

Barbieri, Girolamo

Artists

Marco Molaschi (organ)

About

Girolamo Barbieri was born in Piacenza on 2 October 1808. He began his musical career at a very young age and quickly became a skilled pianist and organist. In 1827 Giuseppe Nicolini, a talented organist and harpsichordist who worked in the ducal theatres of Piacenza, recommended sending him to study at the Conservatory in Milan.

The Marquis Bernardino Mandelli, for whom Barbieri’s father worked as a butler, offered to pay all the expenses but, in that same year, both Girolamo’s patron and father died. Because of this, Barbieri began teaching himself music by using all the works he could borrow, and rapidly mastered the art of composition and instrumentation, thus becoming a sought-after conductor and skilled composer. Blessed with fluent melodic ease, he wrote countless compositions for solos, choirs, organ, piano and other instruments; his musical genre impeccably reflected the dramatic-operatic taste of the time.

The pieces included on this CD are among the most representative of his extensive organ production and find fertile ground in the typical “band/orchestral” sonority of the 19th-century Lombard tradition. On 24 July 1843, as recorded in archival evidence, Barbieri was called to inaugurate the newly-built Angelo Amati great pipe organ in Pizzighettone (Cremona), which is the same organ which was used on this recording.