One of the most important violinists in the Baroque era, Giuseppe Tartini was a prolific composer who wrote over 150 violin sonatas, which music historian Andreas Moser described as “the peak of 18th-century Italian violin music.” Tartini’s Twelve Sonatas, Op. 1, first published in Amsterdam in 1743, were modeled on Arcangelo Corelli’s Violin Sonatas, Op. 5. The Fugue in A major was originally the second of three movements from Tartini’s Sonata Op. 1, No. 1, and is featured here in an arrangement by violinist Fritz Kreisler.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Fugue in A Major Play
Recorded on 05/22/2011, uploaded on 01/23/2012
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One of the most important violinists in the Baroque era, Giuseppe Tartini was a prolific composer who wrote over 150 violin sonatas, which music historian Andreas Moser described as “the peak of 18th-century Italian violin music.” Tartini’s Twelve Sonatas, Op. 1, first published in Amsterdam in 1743, were modeled on Arcangelo Corelli’s Violin Sonatas, Op. 5. The Fugue in A major was originally the second of three movements from Tartini’s Sonata Op. 1, No. 1, and is featured here in an arrangement by violinist Fritz Kreisler.
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