Giovanni Battista Fontana

Giovanni Battista Fontana (born towards 1571 with Brescia, died in 1630 with Padova) Violonist and Type-setter Italy N.

Biography

Only information which came from to us on his life comes from the foreword of its Sonate has 1,2,3 per it Violino O Cornetto, Fagotto, Chitarrone, Violincino O simile atri Strumenti , single opus posthumous, printed with Venice in 1641. He works successively with Venice, Rome and Padoue. Described like one of the most fantastic violonists and virtuosos of his time , called of alive sound dal Violino , he sees himself dedicated in 1608 a sonata by the type-setter brescian Cesario Gussago. He dies at the time of the epidemic of Peste of 1630.

Its book of Sonate S is one of the first of the kind. Style, although inherited that canzona (style whose Girolamo Frescobaldi was one of the most brilliant representatives), a modernity posts whose most remarkable aspect is the instrumentarium, by the way whose Fontana is particularly precise. It often couples the violin and the dulciane (near ancestor to the Basson), while giving to this one a role freed from the Basse continues, solistic with many regards; the diversity of the stamps induced by these indications of instruments can let suppose a much larger variety of sonorities in the music of the beginning of the 17th century than one hears it in the majority of current interpretations.

Its writing for violin is very virtuoso in the meaning of the time, with on the one hand a swiftness in certain passages which asks for on behalf of the interpreter a great detail (the values of notes go until tapered, current thirty-second note, in a tempo ordinario), and on the other hand the passages Adagio which require as at Frescobaldi a very expressive play, perfect imitation of the sung voice, requiring of the violonist a technique irreproachable bow.

Work

Sonata has 1,2,3 per it Violino O Cornetto, Fagotto, Chitarrone, Violincino O simile atri Strumenti, Venezia 1641, collection de18 sonatas for various instruments (violin, horn, bassoon, archiluth, " violincino" , or others), with one to three soloists parts on low continuous.

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