Domenico Alberti
Domenico Alberti (towards 1710 - 1740) was a Chanteur, Clavecin ist and Compositeur Italy N whose works are with the hinge between the period baroque and the traditional period.
Born with Venice, he studied the music with Antonio Lotti. He composed of the Opéra S, the sung airs, and the Sonate S for keyboard instruments for which one knows it best today. These sonatas frequently use a particular process of accompaniment to the left hand which one calls the Basse of Alberti . this one consists of regular arpeggios agreements, in which the lower note resounds in first, then highest, then that of the medium, finally again highest. This reason is repeated. Nowadays, Alberti is regarded as a very secondary type-setter: none of its works is played or recorded in a regular way, but the low one of Alberti was used by many posterior musicians and became an important component in all the repertory of the Clavecin and the Piano of the traditional period, which it takes part to symbolize.
From its time, Alberti was also known as singer. It was often accompanied itself with the harpsichord. One knows few details on his life; nevertheless one knows that it accompanied, like page, the ambassador of Venice at the time of a voyage in 1736 in Spain where it was heard by the famous castrato Farinelli, which was, so that one pays some, extremely impressed, although Alberti was only one amateur. Alberti was then engaged by the marquis Molinari in Rome.
The most known works are its sonatas for keyboard, which are seldom interpreted. He probably wrote 36 of them, and only 14 of them reached us, of which a collection of “VIII Sonata per cembalo, COp 1” , published in London in 1748. Following the example Scarlatti, these sonatas have sonata only the name, because their structure is in two movements, each one of binary format.
The first sonata for violin composed by Mozart when it was 7 years old is probably inspired by Alberti, although it generally chose more prestigious models.
Alberti composed also three operas (Endimione in 1737, Galatea in 1738 and Olimpiade in 1739), including two on booklets of Métastase, and some arias preserved in the form of manuscripts in Austria, Germany and Italy.
Alberti died in Rome in 1740. -----
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