Background
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was born in Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice,
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The Trattenimenti Armonici per Camera, Divisi in Dodici Sonate a Violino e Cembalo, Op. 6 were printed in Amsterdam by Estienne Roger and Le Cene. The twelve chamber sonatas, composed originally for violin, bass viol and harpsichord all have the same, four-movment structure based on the traditional adagio-allegro-adagio-allegro form. This CD contains six of the twelve sonatas that make up the Trattenimenti performed by recorder with harpsichord, lute and cello accompaniment. The decision to entrust the solo part to the recroder, in apparent contradiction to what the composer himself indicated in the frontispiece, is actually fully-justified by eighteenth-century performanc practice. The melodic elegance, harmonic equilibrium and geometric structure created by Albinoni make these sonatas a veritable gem of inestimable worth whose beauty we have striven to offer in one of its innumerable facets.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was born in Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant in Venice,
He studied violin and singing.
Although he was a fully trained musician, he considered himself an amateur.
Little is known of his life, except for the production of at least 48 of his operas, chiefly at Venice between 1694 and 1741. He also composed many solo cantatas.
Albinoni published 10 sets of instrumental works, which achieved wide popularity in his own day and are still appreciated today. (Johann Sebastian Bach based four of his own keyboard fugues on themes composed by Albinoni. ) His instrumental works consist mostly of sonatas, concertos, and sinfonias for various instruments. Especially notable are the Sinfonie e Concerti a 5 (Opus 2, 1700), the concerti for strings (Opus 5, 1707), and the concerti for one and two oboes in Opus 7 and Opus 9. These works are distinguished above all by their melodic charm.
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In 1705, he was married Margherita Rimondi.
