Aria by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758)

Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. He invigorated musical life in Stuttgart. His contemporaries praised his chamber works. The music of Brescianello shows great sense of melody, profound harmonic imagination combined with strong rhythmic element so typical to Italian school of the time. However Brescianello was able to adopt features of French and German music as well. Apart from abovementioned Symfonie brescianello is well-known among to-days guitarists for his outstanding set of 18 Partitas (actually Sonatas and Partitas). The music was originally composed for ‘callichon’ (one of many possible names for the instrument) a small, six course lute of the tuning model that is exactly the same as that of the modern guitar (with the difference that Brescianello’s instrument’s lowest string was G while modern guitar lowest string is E). Threfeore Brescianello’s music is the only baroque music available to present-day guitarist without need for transcription. Moreover, the quality of the set is not lower than that of composer’s orchestral music.

Notes
Renaissance. 32 Measures. 2 Pages. Key of A Minor. 3/4 Time Signature.

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