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Buon compleanno Bartolomeo Campagnoli! 🎻🎁 Composer: Bartolomeo Campagnoli (1751-1827) Work: Sinfonia concertante (Sol maggiore) per flauto, violino e orchestra. Performers: Mario Folеna (flute); Francesco Mаnаra (violin); Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto; Giancarlo Andrеtta (conductor) Sinfonia concertante 1. Allegro 0:00 2. Romanza 10:42 3. Rondo 15:11 Painting: Christian Gottlieb Hammer (1779-1864) - View of Dresden (1810) HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Bartolomeo Campagnoli [Campagnolo, Campagnuola, Compagnoli] (Cento, 10 September 1751 - Neustrelitz, 7 November 1827) Italian violinist and composer. From an early age he studied violin, initially in his native town and later in Modena, under the tuition of Paolo Guastaroba. In 1768, he moved to Padua, where for some time he studied at the school of Giuseppe Tartini. In the following years he appeared as soloist in Rome and Florence; in the latter city he resided from 1771 to 1775, working in the school of one of Tartini's most famous pupils, Leghorn-born Pietro Nardini (1722-1793), and employed as a violinist at Teatro della Pergola. In Florence he also gave successful concerts, reviewed by Gazzetta Toscana, and became a friend of the young Luigi Cherubini. Wishing to widen his horizons and to start a soloist career, in 1776 he left Italy and moved to Freising, Bavaria, where he entered the service of bishop Ludwig von Welten as Konzertmeister at court. He remained until 1779, during which time he also gave well received concerts in Poland, Latvia and Sweden. Later he spent several years in Dresden, and continued to appear in public in northern Europe, returning twice to Italy, in 1784 and 1788. In 1797 he became Konzertmeister of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig. In that city, the musician published his Violin Method, which soon became extremely popular in all of Europe. Meanwhile, as the famous orchestra's first violin, he had the opportunity to become acquainted with and perform the symphonic and instrumental output of the great Austro-German composers. On the side he never stopped composing, and towards the end of the 18th century a few of his works started to appear on the market: his Op.1, Six Duos pour la Flute et Violon, was published around 1790 in Berlin; others followed, for a total of 22 opus numbers. He also continued his activity as itinerant performer. In Paris, in 1801, he met again with his friend Cherubini, and made the acquaintance of Rodolphe Kreutzer, whose violin concerto he performed in Leipzig in 1804, earning himself a cautiously positive pronouncement by Louis Spohr. In 1816 he ended his nearly twenty-year-long appointment with the Gewandhaus, and returned for some time to Italy with his two daughters, Albertina Campagnoli (1795-1848) and Giannina Campagnoli (1797-1848), both of whom were singers. But in 1821 the violinist was already back in Germany, to take up the position of Konzertmeister in Neustrelitz, probably to be close to his daughters who, from 1819, had been enrolled at the Hannover Theatre. After a last visit to Italy in 1826, he died in Neustrelitz.
