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Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Tomaso Antonio Vitali has been played on NTS in shows including SIGOURNEY, featured first on 2 June 2022. Songs played include Hungarian Dances and Chaconne.

Tomaso Antonio Vitali (March 7, 1663 –May 9, 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, son of Giovanni Battista Vitali. He is well-known for a chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, which is generally thought to be a musical hoax (it is presumed that the composition was either heavily altered, recomposed, or originally composed by German violonist Ferdinand David.)

One striking feature of the "Vitali" Chaconne's style is the way it wildly changes key, reaching the far-flung territories of B flat and D sharp minors, uncharacteristic of the Baroque era, and key signature changed typical only in Romanticism. Despite its dubious provenance, the piece has been ever popular amongst violinists. For example, Heifetz chose it to open his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1917.

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Tomaso Antonio Vitali

Tomaso Antonio Vitali has been played on NTS in shows including SIGOURNEY, featured first on 2 June 2022. Songs played include Hungarian Dances and Chaconne.

Tomaso Antonio Vitali (March 7, 1663 –May 9, 1745) was an Italian composer and violinist from Bologna, son of Giovanni Battista Vitali. He is well-known for a chaconne in G minor for violin and continuo, which is generally thought to be a musical hoax (it is presumed that the composition was either heavily altered, recomposed, or originally composed by German violonist Ferdinand David.)

One striking feature of the "Vitali" Chaconne's style is the way it wildly changes key, reaching the far-flung territories of B flat and D sharp minors, uncharacteristic of the Baroque era, and key signature changed typical only in Romanticism. Despite its dubious provenance, the piece has been ever popular amongst violinists. For example, Heifetz chose it to open his New York debut at Carnegie Hall in 1917.

Original source: Last.fm

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Hungarian Dances
Vitali, Gluck, Schumann, Brahms, Falla, Albeniz, Granados, Debussy, Glazunov, Rachmaninoff, David Oistrakh
Мелодия, Росмэн2003
Chaconne
David Oistrakh, Lev Oborin, Beethoven, Vitali, Brahms, Mendelssohn
Columbia Masterworks1956