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Baldassare Galuppi

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#1 ·
Oh Galuppi, Baldassaro, this is very sad to find!
I can hardly misconceive you; it would prove me deaf and blind;
But although I take your meaning, 'tis with such a heavy mind!

Here you come with your old music, and here's all the good it brings.
What, they lived once thus at Venice where the merchants were the kings,
Where Saint Mark's is, where the Doges used to wed the sea with rings?

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I was recently reading Browning's poem, and it inspired me to look into the subject. I've been enjoying some of his keyboard music lately. Are any of you others familiar at all with this composer?

 
#4 · (Edited)
I was recently reading Browning's poem, and it inspired me to look into the subject. I've been enjoying some of his keyboard music lately. Are any of you others familiar at all with this composer?
I wasn't - but am really pleased to find this guestbook now that I've come across him. :tiphat:

Here's the Wiki link - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldassare_Galuppi

and here's an entry in Lesser Known Composer of the Month (Florida State University):
https://guides.lib.fsu.edu/c.php?g=353115&p=2383523
 
#5 · (Edited)
Some YouTube material -

Complete Concertos for Strings, Brilliant Classics -
Gracious, pleasant music - I don't mean to 'damn with faint praise'.

Sonata no. 5 in C major, on piano -
I'm not generally one for baroque keyboard music on piano, but I loved this.

Te Deum -
Just beautiful.

Harpsichord Concerto in C Minor:
Dramatic - it carried me away.

Plus an opera here - Baldassare Galuppi. "Il Filosofo di Campagna" Opera
Lively & enjoyable as far as I watched (half-way through) - it was a blurred and creaky video.