Giacomo Conti (1754-1805) - Concerto (Es-Dur) a Violon Principal (c.1790)

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Composer: Giacomo Conti (1754-1805)
Work: Concerto (Es-Dur) a Violon Principal, No.1 Op.4 (c.1790)
Performers: Robеrt Nasciszеwski (violin); Rzеszów Chamber Orchestra;
Grzеgorz OIiwa (conductor)

Concerto (Es-Dur) a Violon Principal (c.1790)
1. Adagio, allegro 0:00
2. Adagio 14:12
3. Rondo 18:47

Painting: William Sidney Mount (1807-1868) - After Dinner (1834)
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Painting: William Michael Harnett (1848-1892) - Violin and Music (1888)
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Giacomo (Jacques) Conti
(Milan, 24 May 1754 - Vienna, 24 January 1805)

Italian violinist and composer. He is known to have played in a concert in Zürich in 1786, after which he may have moved to Vienna (his op.1 was published there by Artaria in 1788). In 1790, according to Gerber, he was in the service of the Russian court in St Petersburg; either at the same time or subsequently he was a member of Prince Potyomkin's retinue but in 1791, at Potyomkin's death, he left Russia. From 1793 he led the orchestra of the Italian opera in Vienna and was severely criticized, since the decline of the opera was blamed on him. From 1797 he was also a member of the Hofkapelle. He is described by Karl van Beethoven in 1802 as Geigenmeister (presumably violin teacher) to Count Moritz von Fries, to whom Conti dedicated his three violin duos op.9 (1797). Conti's compositions for violin make considerable technical demands but are little more than agreeable entertainment pieces. #ClassicalMusic