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Giovanni Sgambati - Complete Piano Works Vol.5 | Tactus TC841905

Giovanni Sgambati - Complete Piano Works Vol.5

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC841905

Barcode: 8007194103939

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 1st November 2007

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About

Giovanni Sgambati promoted the diffusion of instrumental music throughout Italy, and especially in Rome, with his "Quintet", appointed “Her Majesty the Queen’s Court Quintet”, by decree in 1893. Their numerous symphonic concerts ranged from a belated first performance of Beethoven's Eroica, to the world première of the Dante Symphonie and of the Christus entrusted to him by his teacher Liszt. He also attended to the foundation of the Santa Cecilia School of Music.

His apartment in Piazza di Spagna became a unique musical centre, a must for all the musicians who visited Rome, inter alia, for Liszt, who chose Sgambati as his pupil and held him in high regard. The Hungarian maestro commented, “Sgambati has something of Bronsart and something of Tausig, as well. What a strange combination for a trueborn Italian, and, indeed, his eyes are as beautiful as the King of Bavaria’s”. And to those who expressed misgivings about his entrusting a young musician with the first performances of such complex works, Liszt replied: “Sgambati starts off from where many others do not even finish!”.

Wagner would also stay at Sgambati’s: in 1876, the year in which his theatre in Bayreuth was completed and when his fame as a composer was at the top, he wrote a letter to the publisher Schott inviting him to publish two of Sgambati’s Quintets (“a composer and a fine pianist in the noblest, truest sense, a great and true talent, that I should like to present to the great world of music [...] from Vienna throughout Germany where he could perform his compositions that I expect to be a great success, after the boring new German chamber music, including Brahms’”).

Contents:
- Preludio e Toccata* in G major
- Variazione per un concerto di Remey
- Valzer*
- Valse minuscule*
- Valz brillante
- Vals melancolique*
- Scherzo in E major
- Scherzo in D minor*
- Serenatina
- Romanza in F major - 2 small pieces for pianoforte*
- Presentimento
- Mestizia
- Melodie impromptu
- Mazurka in A minor*
- 'Minuetto di Beethoven' - 3 pieces for piano (four hands) (with Francesco Libetta)*

* World premiere

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