Classical Composer: | Albinoni, Tomaso Giovanni |
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Work: | Concerto for 2 Oboes in C Major, Op. 7, No. 2 |
Year Composed: | 1715 |
Instrumentation: | 0.2.0.0 - 8.7.6.5.4 str, |
Publisher: | Edition Kunzelmann |
Duration: | 00:14:00 |
Period: | Baroque (1600-1750) |
Work Category: | Concerto |
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Albinoni's first set of Concerti a cinque with parts for one or two oboes, published in Amsterdam as his Opus 7 in 1715, has the distinction of being the first such collection by an Italian composer ever published. The composer dedicated them to a local nobleman and amateur musician, Giovanni Donato Correggio. The works are divided into four groups, each of which begins with a concerto for strings (one of these, No.11, contains passages for a solo violin), continues with a concerto for two oboes and finishes with one for a single oboe. Whereas the concerti with one oboe are fully mature in conception, those with two oboes are more varied, as if Albinoni, in 1715, had not yet decided how to structure them. Certainly, the two-oboe works, which are all in the traditional trumpet keys of C major and D major, carry strong traces of the trumpet sonatas that Bolognese composers, in particular, had written at the end of the previous century.
The second concerto of Opus 7is notable for its short slow movement, for strings only, which is a fine essay in chromatic harmony and quasi-vocal polyphony.
Writer: Michael Talbot
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