DOMENICO DRAGONETTI CONCERTO FOR DOUBLE BASS PDF

Domenico Dragonetti, Claudio Marignon, Orchestra Di Padova E Del Vento, Ubaldo Fioravanti, Teodora Campagnaro – Dragonetti: Double Bass Concerto.

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He took part between andin forty-six concerts held by the Philharmonic Society of London. Concerto for double bass and piano.

One of his concertos was particularly remarked by the queen of Naples. He never did learn to speak English, expressing himself in a mixture of Italian, English, French and Venetian dialect, but was an astute businessman, and in fact, helped his surviving family in Xouble financially.

Later he became intimate with the Prince Consort and the Duke of Leinster. To this day, the mastering of the Beethoven double bass symphonic parts are considered a basic standard for all orchestral double bass players. Dragonetti came back to Vienna for an extensive stay in Palmer Clarendon Press Oxford seems to offer the most plausible account.

Dragonetti was a drxgonetti of the fine arts, and a collector of musical instruments as well as many art-related articles, such as original scores and paintings. Some were directly bequeathed by Dragonetti, some were offered by Vincent Novelloand some were bought at auctions. On that second occasion, Haydn met Dragonetti, who became a very good friend, and who visited him in Vienna in He began playing the guitar and the double bass by himself on his father’s instruments.

When he left for London inDragonetti left many papers and manuscripts, including a Complete system of the double bass, or instruction book for that instrumentcontaining many elaborate exercises and studies, in the care of a friend.

Unfortunately, they were sold and could not be retrieved by their author when he returned to Venice after some years.

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In fifty years, he became a prominent figure in the musical events of the English capital, performing at the concerts of the Philharmonic Society of London as well as in more private events, where he would meet the most influential persons in the country, like the Prince Consort and the Duke of Leinster.

The visit was a huge success and generated some of his best known work. Domenico Carlo Maria Dragonetti 7 April — 16 April was an Italian double bass virtuoso and composer with a 3 string double bass. By that time he had become notable throughout Europe and had turned down several opportunities, including offers from the Tsar of Russia.

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On that second trip he became friends with composer Simon Sechterwho would become the court organist inand professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatorium in He became very famous at the time, started playing solo pieces, which was exceptional at the time for the double bass, and even got elected as of the directors of a musical festival held for the coming of fourteen sovereign princes to the republic of Venice.

Mention is made of drwgonetti on The Contrabass Shoppe web site which says Beethoven and he soon met and they were mutually pleased with each other. Another trip was therefore scheduled in A hand endowed with five fingers so long, big and agile, that all five, including the bent thumb, go up and down the fingerboard each playing a note. He finally joined the institution on 13 September as the last of the five double bass players of the Chapel with a yearly income of 25 ducats.

At fourteen he was appointed principal double bass player in the Grand Opera Seria at the San Benedetto theatre. InJoseph Haydn accepted a lucrative offer from German impresario Johann Peter Salomon to visit England and conduct new symphonies with large orchestras. As remuneration for renouncing the offers and remaining as principal bassist with the orchestra of the Ducal Fo of St Mark’s in Venice an orchestra of considerable importancea decree made in gave Fomenico a financial gratuity.

The story that he kept and often traveled with a collection of drgonetti cloth mannequins, bringing them to his concerts and having them placed in front row seats of theaters, and even introducing one of these dolls as his wife, is completely unsubstantiated.

Beethoven played his part, with his eyes immovably fixed upon his companion, and, in the finale, where the arpeggios occur, was so delighted and excited that at the close he sprang up and threw his arms around both player and instrument”. At the age of thirteen, Dragonetti was appointed principal player at the Opera Buffa in Venice. He died in his Leicester square lodgings at the age of 83 and was buried on 23 April in the vaults of the Roman Catholic chapel of St Mary, Moorfields.

He was acquainted with composers Joseph Haydn and Ludwig van Beethovenwhom he visited on several occasions in Viennaand to whom he showed the possibilities of the double bass as a solo instrument. Dragonetti was known for his formidable strength and stamina.

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Domenico Dragonetti – Wikipedia

The authoritative source for information on him is the book of Dr. Similarly, it is reputed that Dragonetti was baws with an instrument made by Gasparo da Salo — by the Benedictine nuns who occupied St Peter’s monastery in Vicenza where Dragonetti lived and played in the Grand Opera. At the Italian Opera orchestra, he met the cellist Robert Lindleywho became his close friend and with whom he shared the stand during fifty-two years.

In the Palmer biography, a footnote refers to a account by C. Liben Publishers,piano score p.

Double Bass Concerto in G major, Op.1 (Dragonetti, Domenico)

He is also remembered today for the Dragonetti bowwhich he evolved throughout his life. This was not at all standard in these times, as most players used to play – in one position – one note with the index finger, and one with the other three fingers in combination. It was particularly important at a time when the role of the double bass in the orchestra was to assist the concertmaster in maintaining the cohesion and establishing the tempo.

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Domenico Dragonetti

In concreto projects Wikimedia Commons. Composerdouble bassistpedagogue. Dragonetti had no close family, but had many close friends in the musical world in London.

Many years afterwards Dragonetti related the following anecdote to Samuel Appleby, Esq. He was now – in the spring ofso far as the means are at hand of determining the time – returning to London from a visit to his native city, Venice, and his route took him to Dragoetti, where he remained several weeks. He wrote piano accompaniments to some of his concert pieces, and they maintained a lifelong dragometti. That leave was extended for three more years afterwards, but finally Dragonetti never returned to Venice for more than a brief period during the French occupation of the city, Some of the compositions by Dragonetti include.

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