The second movement, Adagio, I believe is one of the most graceful melodies to have come upon my ears. I have noticed that I don’t hear the same ornaments as the Bach transcription which leads me to believe that Bach added his own ornaments to his work. The first movement, Andante e spiccato, is not very technical but has a motion and energy that drives each phrase. It is almost like there isn’t an oboist on stage but a vocalist singing to you.
When the oboe finally enters, the melody line is simple but it carries you and makes you want to listen. You can hear the Acadian ideals in Alessandro’s piece. I arrived just as the concert was about to being. The audience contained mostly nobles and government officials.
I went to the Palazzo Marcello and discovered a concert was being performed that had the concerto on its program. It is typical of nobles such as the Marcello to conduct concerts in their home. Now that I learned who the true author was, I went to seek out Alessandro. The Arcadians would also use pseudonyms and I discovered that the pseudonym of “Eterio Stinfalico” belonged to Alessandro Marcello. They also wished to avoid lavish displays and encouraged simplicity. The Arcadians were a new movement of intellectuals that emphasized the respect of artistic achievement and a return to the Greek ideals that music and poetry worked together. I recalled that considering the academic pursuits of the Marcellos, that it was possible that they were members of the Arcadian colony. Benedetto has a much larger body of work composing of many instrumental and sacred vocal pieces. This is probably due to him being much more of a figure head in the Venetian government since his father passed away in 1707. Alessandro composes also but his interests actually lie more with philosophy, mathematics, history, chemistry, painting and poetry.Īlessandro has a small body of work in music. There are three Marcello brothers, Alessandro, Benedetto and Girolamo, who were born of nobility here in Venice. It is now time to seek out the true composer of this wonderful oboe concerto. I have digressed enough from my original mission. I myself have taken oboe lessons from these gentlemen at the insistence of Francesco Gasparini.
These teachers are the virtuosi of our day and include Ignazio Rion, Onofrio, Penati, Ludwig Erdmann and Ignazio Siber. The Ospedale della Pieta where I teach, has had many of the finest oboe teachers. The oboe in particular has become a primary instrument here in Venice. Italian woodwind players are considered the finest in Europe and many are becoming quite famous. The recorder, transverse flute, oboe, bassoon were becoming a regular part of the musical life here and masterpieces were being written for these instruments. Before the turn of the century, there was a sudden increase of instruments being produced. I have arrived back at Venice and I feel it should be noted the rise in compositions and performance of the woodwind instruments, especially the oboe.įor many years string players have dominated the performing scene here in the Italian republics. Since this only added to the mystery of who the true composer of the piece is, I decided to return to my home in Venice so that I might investigate for myself and find out the truth. ” I acquired the published edition of the oboe concerto from a company in Amsterdam and it listed the composer as Eterio Stinfalico. , will always be out of tune, too sharp, etc. I also know that Marcello stated, “Oboes, flutes, trumpets, bassoons, etc. As I listened to the piece, I was captured by the simple yet eloquent melodies that were presented but I also was curious as I had not known of Benedetto to write for oboe. Bach listed the composer as the well-known Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello. The transcription was of a piece called Concerto in D minor for Oboe, Strings and Basso Continuo. There I heard a recent keyboard transcription of Bach’s. Charles Pridgen CONS-422a From the journal of Antonio Vivaldi DecemAs noted in a previous journal entry, I had made a trip to Cothen where the great composer, Johann Sebastian Bach, is under the service of Prince Leopold.
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