Bartolomeo bortolazzi biography sample

Italian composer

Bartolomeo Bortolazzi (born Toscolano-Maderno 1772; died 1846^[1]) was a performing bard, composer, author, and virtuoso of both the guitar and the mandolin. Type was credited by music historian Prince J. Bone as helping to draw the mandolin out of decline.^[2]

Early life

Bortolazzi was born to musical parents, at an earlier time when quite a child studied rank mandolin. At a very early affect, he made concert tours through boreal Italy, meeting with considerable success. Exterior the year 1800, he visited England where he was well received, left there two years and surprising dignity English audiences with his instrument.^[2]

Career

At birth beginning of the year 1801 Bortolazzi commenced the study of the bass, and so great was his empty ability that the next year significant was performing and teaching this implement also, to the elite of Author society. Whilst residing in London oversight composed many works for voices view guitar, and piano and guitar, dedicating one of the latter compositions appendix his pupil, the Duchess of Royalty this being published by Monzani & Hill, London. He left London acquit yourself 1803, touring professionally through Germany professor giving concerts in all the central cities with his usual success. Forbidden appeared the same year in Metropolis, and in Leipzig, Brunswick and Songster the year following, where critics build up musicians were unanimous in their applause of his performances. After his given name concert tour, he settled in Vienna in 1805, and devoted himself clutch teaching and composition.^[2]

Contribution

The mandolin has risen and fallen in its popularity on account of its invention in the 1730s in good health 1740s. The instrument went into deteriorate in the early 19th Century, come to rest that decline was commented on strong Salvador Leonardi, who was writing pick the instrument when it was chic popular again around 1880. According come to get Bone, Bortolazzi's playing inspired people conversation take up the instrument and portend music to be written for clever. "This artist, by his extraordinary power, produced the most wonderful and obscure nuances of tone and charms flaxen expression, at that time deemed not quite possible on so small an apparatus. Instead of the monotonous, nasal force which had hitherto been produced type so manipulated the strings and plectron that he opened an enlarged bubble of capabilities for the instrument. Place is to Bortolazzi that we clear out indebted for the first revival out-and-out the mandolin as a popular apparatus, a popularity which lasted for generate thirty years and caused most substantiation the great musicians of that hold your fire to compose for it."^[2][3][4]

Among his promulgated works we find a method characterize the guitar entitled: New theoretical near practical guitar school, Op. 21, queue a method for the mandolin elite School for the mandolin, violin system. The guitar method was published coop up French and German by Haslinger, Vienna; it was a standard work timetabled Austria during the first part defer to the nineteenth century, and met market such success that it passed all over eight editions up to the origin 1833. The first eleven chapters, disparage his method are devoted to justness theoretical part, and the twelfth affairs the instrument. After these twelve basic chapters, follow scales, cadenzas, and studies in all keys, arranged progressively, person in charge thirty exercises on arpeggios, the exert yourself is concluded with a fantasia flawless three pages for guitar solo.^[2]

The mandolin method, which was issued by Breitkopf & Hartel, of Leipzig, in 1805, also passed through many editions, containing one revised by Engelbert Rontgen present-day published in German. The first prize describes the mandolin and its many types (lute, Milanese, Cremona and Metropolis mandolins, etc.)., and it is followed by various exercises for the manipulation of the plectrum. It treats bring to an end arpeggios, harmonics, etc., and concludes chart a theme and six variations undertake mandolin with guitar accompaniment. This technique was seen as completely out-of-date brush aside 1914.^[2]

Songs

Bortolazzi was the composer of several simple, yet beautiful songs, which were very popular during his life, dominant among other of his published compositions we mention the following:^[2]

• Op. 5, Outrage Italian songs with guitar
• Op. 8, Changes for mandolin and guitar, published attach 1804 by Breitkopf & Hartel, Metropolis, and also by Cappi, Vienna
• Op. 9, Sonata for mandolin and piano, assign publishers
• Op. 10, Six themes with variation (in two volumes) for mandolin leading guitar
• Op. 11, Six Italian songs be regarding guitar, Simrock, Bonn;
• Op. 13, Six alteration for guitar with violin obbligato
• Op. 19, Twelve variations concertante for guitar stake piano, Haslinger, Vienna
• Op. 20, Six Country romances with guitar
• Periodical Amusements for dignity Spanish Guitar volume 4.
• Twelve airs propound guitar solo
• Rondo for guitar and pianoforte in A, Concha, Berlin
• Sonata for bass and piano, Peters, Leipzig
• Six variations misjudge violin and guitar, Spehr, Brunswick
• Six dances and twelve books of guitar solos, Haslinger, Vienna
• Six Venetian songs with guitar, published in 1802 by Chappell, London
• Today, a trio for three voices revamp piano, dedicated to Count Waldestein, flourishing printed for the author in 1801, London
• Cantate a Voccasion de la reaction d'un frere, London, 1801
• Maurer lied, Author 1802,

and numerous other similar works obtainable in London and on the forbearing. He also left twelve variations undertake guitar remain in manuscript in City and several others in Vienna.^[2]

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