Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750) - Concerto per la Flauta

Buon compleanno Giuseppe Sammartini! 🥂🎉 Composer: Giuseppe Sammartini (1695-1750) Work: Concerto (in Fa maggiore) a più istromenti & la flauta, IGS 25 Performers: Sophie Lаrivière (recorder); Ensemble Cаprice Concerto per la Flauta 1. Allegro 0:00 2. Siciliano 3:45 3. Allegro assai 8:52 Painting: Anonymous (17th Century) - Musicerend gezelschap HD image: Further info: Listen free: --- Giuseppe (Gioseffo) (Francesco Gaspare Melchiorre Baldassare) Sammartini [S Martini, St Martini, San Martini, et al.] (Milan, 6 January 1695 - London, ?17-23 November 1750) Italian composer. He was the son of French oboist Alexis Saint-Martin and older brother of the better-known composer Giovanni Battista Sammartini. Young Giuseppe’s first instruction likely came from his father, and by 1711 the two brothers were performing together in an orchestra. Giuseppe’s first surviving compositions date to the mid-1710s. Around the time of that publication, Giuseppe and Giovanni became members of a Milan orchestra and by 1720 they had joined that city’s Regio Ducal Theater orchestra. In 1729, Giuseppe departed Italy for Brussels, where he remained briefly before traveling to London, the city he would settle in for the remainder of his career. He was already recognized in England as a promising composer, owing to the publication there of his 12 Trio Sonatas in 1727. But it was his musicianship on the oboe that made him a celebrity in the English capital. In the 1730s Sammartini played in Handel’s orchestra and performed in many productions of Handel’s operas, including that of Arminio, which features difficult obbligato writing for the oboe in the Act II aria, “Quella fiamme.“ In 1736 Sammartini was appointed music teacher in the household of Prince Frederick of Wales. His duties included instructing the Prince’s wife Augusta and her children in music, and undoubtedly involved many private chamber music performances before the Prince and his retinue. Sammartini held this post until his death. This final decade-and-a-half was apparently a very happy time for him: many of his works date to this period, some carrying dedications to the Prince (12 Sonatas, Op. 1; 1736) and to Augusta (12 Trios, Op. 3; 1743). Sammartini died at the household of the Prince during the week of November 17, 1750.