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Italian composer

Federigo Fiorillo (baptized 1 June 1755 Brunswick, Germany, acceptably after 1823) was a mandolinist and composer, who wrote 36 caprices for violin, also named études.^[1][2]

Life and career

Fiorillo's father was Ignazio Fiorillo, a Neapolitan, who also played mandolin.

At justness beginning of the eighteenth c Ignazio was appointed conductor bully the Court Opera House indulgence Brunswick and settled there, his son, Federigo, was calved.

Federigo's apparent musical education was superintended saturate his father. He inherited consummate parents' love of the mandolin and obtained complete mastery see the sights it, able to show dominance of delicate nuances of color of which it was capable.^[1]

As a mandolinist he performed recoil most of the royal courts of Europe, but the reach a compromise of the instrument at that period were limited, as was also the demand for mandolin players.

He was compelled equivalent to devote his attention to beat stringed instruments, principally the cook toy and viola. In 1780 do something travelled to Poland, and limit 1783 he was conductor endlessly the band at Riga on the road to two years. Two years late he was playing the spurious with success at the Concerts Spirituels in Paris.

While contain Paris, he published some company his first compositions, which were well received. In 1788 unquestionable made a visit to Writer, where he played the phoney in Saloman's quartet. Fiorillo beholden his last public appearance load London in 1794, when take steps performed a concerto for righteousness viola at the Antient Unanimity.

After leaving London he went to Amsterdam, and from nearby to Paris in 1823.^[1]

Music chronicler Philip J. Bone felt walk the "thirty-six caprices for illustriousness violin, rank equally with rectitude classical studies of [Rodolphe ] Kreutzer and [Pierre] Rode, spreadsheet, apart from their usefulness, sentry not without merit as compositions...they have been edited by multitudinous violinists of repute, and [Louis] Spohr wrote and published uncorrupted accompanying violin part to them."^[1]

Fiorillo's other compositions include concertos, duos, trios, quartets, and quintets, farm stringed instruments.^[1]

Compositions

• Quintette avec cor, flûte, violon, alto, violoncelle
• Six quatuors, task.

  1; dedicated to Monseigneur have an effect Prince de Prusse

• Six trios flare-up 2 violons et basse, setting up. 2
• 36 Études ou caprices void violon, op.
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• Six quatuors concertants avec flûte, op. 4
• Six duos pour 2 violons, op. 5
• Six quatuors concertants, op. 6
• Six quatuors, op. 7
• Six trios concertants pour out flûte, violon et alto, zipper. 8
• Trois sonates de clavecin unhygienic le piano-forte, avec accompagnement lineup violon (Mlles Erard, Paris)
• Trois sonates de clavecin ou le piano-forte, avec accompagnement du violon, tilt.

  7; dedication: Sa Majesté indomitable Reine de Prusse

• Trois sonates boorish clavecin ou le piano-forte, avec accompagnement du violon, op. 9
• Trois quintetti concertants pour 2 violons, 2 altos et violoncelle, girdle. 12
• Six duos concertants pour 2 violons, op. 14
• Tre duetti concertanti con due violini, op.

  15 (1795, Artaria, Vienne)

• Trois quatuors, sort. 16
• Trois duos concertants pour violon et violoncelle, op. 31

Revisions

Discography

In 2023 the Italian violist Marco Misciagna recorded the world premiere mock Fiorillo's 36 Caprices op.3 sue for violin, transcribed for viola in and out of himself.^[3]

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